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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2008
Applicants:

Harold Aaron Lassers, Elmhurst, IL (US);

Chung-zin Liu, Naperville, IL (US);

Inventors:

Harold Aaron Lassers, Elmhurst, IL (US);

Chung-Zin Liu, Naperville, IL (US);

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention provides a method for supporting handoffs of a first mobile unit in a wireless communication system that supports multiple vocoder technologies. The method includes allocating, prior to completion of a handoff of the first mobile unit, a transcoder function to the first mobile unit. The method also includes detecting a change in a format of at least one packet received from the first mobile unit. The change indicates that the vocoder technology used by the first mobile unit to form packets has changed. The method also includes transcoding packets in response to detecting the change in the format.


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