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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1997
Mike Vargo, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jerry Chang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Clarent Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention is concerned with improvements in full duplex Internet telephone systems with a system architecture having low latency and permitting voice communication with telephone to telephone or PC to telephone connections. The architecture permits dynamic packet-to-packet change in codec to adjust for Internet conditions. The voice port creates self-describing packet conditions so that the higher level software of the system is independent of codec selection. In addition to adjusting the codec, the voice port has the capability of dynamically and concurrently selecting other factors such as the level of error correction redundancy, the packet size and packet bundling on a packet-to-packet basis. The invention further includes a technique to eliminate dead air spaces in the voice data transmission stream by speeding up or slowing down the data rate in the buffer while maintaining a constant pitch of speech.