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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2006
Restructuring data packets to improve voice quality at low bandwidth conditions in wireless networks
Veerabhadra Gundu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Veerabhadra Gundu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sonim Technologies, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and client devices for transmitting data packets based on audio input from a client device to a communications network in a communication session by receiving audio input on the client device; encoding audio input into audio frames comprising audio data indicative of the audio input; measuring bandwidth utilization of the communications network; removing a portion of the audio data if the bandwidth utilization is above a first pre-determined threshold; grouping the audio frames into data packets; and transmitting the data packets over the communications network. Alternate embodiments for removing portions of the audio data include removing at least one audio frame from each of a selected set of the plurality of data packets. Additional embodiments for removing portions of the audio data include removing a set of least significant bytes from each of a selected set of audio frames.