At+t Corp.

Andrew J Berkley

Lee Begeja

David Arthur Berkley

A method of reducing transmission delays in a packet-switched telephone system. Each of the data packets carrying telephone voice data is under-filled when necessary in order to avoid undue delays in sending the packets to their designation. Under-filling of the packets allows a routine telephone conversation to take place with out being adversely affected by network delays or delays normally attributed to the time needed to accumulate sufficient data to fill a packet to its normal size. Packets may also be filled to their normal size by combining data from more than one telephone call if the data from the other calls is immediately available. Filling an otherwise under-filled packet with data from multiple telephone calls avoids the inefficiencies which would otherwise be present with under-filled packets for a single call.

Method of reducing delays in packet data transmission

This invention provides a telephone-data network access system that permits voice communication device users to access a data network such as the Internet. A telephone-data network access device receives commands from callers and executes the commands on the data network such as send e-mail, search the data network, log on to pages supported by other parties on the data network, etc. A caller profile saves preferences of a caller for interacting with the data network. The telephone-data network access device may supply primitive commands for the caller to use individually or to construct complex command macros so that by a single command, more complex functions may be performed using the data network. By the above described techniques, callers who do not have access to devices such as a personal computer may access the data network and take advantage of the rich resources available through the data network.

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Summit, NJ, United States of America

Andrew J Berkley