Satellite telephony
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1. A method of receiving telephone information, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a packet from a satellite at a receiver, said packet including a packet header and a payload;
determining whether said received packet contains telephone data by reviewing a payload unit start bit in the packet header and a telephone code contained in the payload of said packet;
based on a determination that the received packet contains telephone data, extracting a first frame of telephone data from said packet, wherein said packet does not contain data belonging to an Internet Protocol packet; and
forwarding said first frame of telephone data to a first telephone device communicatively connected to said receiver.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to packetization techniques for satellite transmission of data, such as telephony data. Some embodiments use the MPEG2 standard in connection with the ETSI DVB data piping profile for arranging the data. Embodiments also relate to method for receiving, demultiplexing and managing incoming telephony data to support a variety of telephony applications including voice, facsimile, Internet and other data.
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1. A method of receiving telephone information, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a packet from a satellite at a receiver, said packet including a packet header and a payload; determining whether said received packet contains telephone data by reviewing a payload unit start bit in the packet header and a telephone code contained in the payload of said packet; based on a determination that the received packet contains telephone data, extracting a first frame of telephone data from said packet, wherein said packet does not contain data belonging to an Internet Protocol packet; and forwarding said first frame of telephone data to a first telephone device communicatively connected to said receiver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A satellite receiver system, comprising:
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at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable program code that, when executed by said at least one processor, causes said at least one processor to perform the following steps; receiving a packet from a satellite, said packet including a packet header and a payload; determining whether said received packet contains telephone data by reviewing a payload unit start bit in the packet header and a telephone code contained in the payload of said packet; based on a determination that the received packet contains telephone data, extracting a first frame of telephone data from said packet, wherein said packet does not contain data belonging to an Internet Protocol packet; and forwarding said first frame of telephone data to a first telephone device communicatively connected to said satellite receiver system. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of receiving telephone information, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a packet from a satellite at a receiver, said packet having a packet header and a payload; determining whether said payload contains telephone data of relevance to said receiver by identifying a pointer value in said packet payload, and determining whether said pointer value points to a location within said payload; based on a determination that said payload contains telephone data of relevance to said receiver, extracting a plurality of frames of telephone data from said payload; and forwarding said frames of telephone data to at least one device communicatively connected to said receiver. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A communication method comprising the steps of:
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packing a plurality of frames of telephone data into a payload portion of a single MPEG2 packet according to a DVB data piping profile and using a payload unit start bit in a header of said MPEG2 packet to indicate that the data in said payload is telephone data, wherein a first byte in the payload portion of the MPEG2 packet is a pointer that points to a location outside of the payload portion; and transmitting said MPEG2 packet to a receiver via an extraterrestrial satellite. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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