Motorola Corporation

Philip C Blum

Michael W Bychowsky

Esteban Yepez, Iii

J Christopher Stanaway

Douglas A Lenz

To address the need for an apparatus and method for transcoding among multiple wireless protocols, the present invention provides a framework for more generalized transcoding. A voice processing resource (e.g.,) of a transcoder () receives the dynamic transcoding attributes (e.g.,) for a frame and then transcodes that frame according to the requirements of the transcoding attributes. These dynamic attributes may contain information such as the wireless protocol involved, the frame type, the source type, the sequence number, the delivery timing requirements, and the delivery mode of subsequent frames.

Communication equipment, transcoder device and method for processing frames associated with a plurality of wireless protocols

A communication device ( ) receives a first portion of an information packet via a primary communication resource ( ). During a time period otherwise allocated for receiving a second portion of the information packet, the communication device ( ) determines the signal quality of one or more other communication resources. The communication device then requests retransmission of the second portion of the information packet.

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Philip C Blum