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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1999
John T. Chapman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Guenter Roeck, San Jose, CA (US);
Sunil Khaunte, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Unsolicited grants are allocated a selected time interval for scheduling transmission of audio packets at a network endpoint. A network processing node switches from outputting unsolicited grants to polling for packet transmission requests when Voice Activity Detection (VAD) at the transmitting endpoint stops generating audio packets. The network processing node switches back to outputting unsolicited grants when the endpoint resumes generation of audio packets. The unsolicited grants include one or more additional grants within the selected time interval that flush out one or more audio packets that may already be queued for transmitting. These additional grants reduce the latency normally caused when Voice Activity Detection (VAD) stops and then restarts audio packet transmission.