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Voice IP bandwidth utilization

US6389038B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJan 21, 2000
Grant dateMay 14, 2002
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Expiry dateJan 21, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/326
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for combining plural independently addressable packets into a SuperPacket to improve the utilization of a communications channel. The method and system reduce the percentage of the header information that is redundant between packets and/or redundant based on the source and destination addresses of the packets as compared to the data payload. The combined SuperPackets are disassembled at a terminating gateway or at a second multiplexer. The reduction in header information is especially useful in voice over IP communications systems where the data is voice information that is kept in small packets to avoid latency.

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