Communication devices, communication systems, a Bluetooth communications protocol communication device, and communication methods
View Patent ↗Communication devices, communication systems, a Bluetooth communication protocol communication device, and communication methods are provided. According to a first aspect, a communication device includes a single buffer configured to store communication data; control circuitry coupled with the buffer and configured to generate a plurality of packets including different amounts of communication data from the buffer; and communication circuitry coupled with the control circuitry and configured to communicate the packets.a.
1. A communication device comprising:
a buffer configured to store communication data comprising a plurality of speech samples having different numbers of data samples and more than one type of communications quality;
control circuitry coupled with the single buffer and configured to selectively extract the communication data from only a portion of the single buffer and to generate a packet including the communication data extracted from only the portion of the buffer; and
communication circuitry coupled with the control circuitry and configured to communicate the packet.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to generate a plurality of packet types and to extract the communication data from only the portion of the single buffer for one packet type and the entire single buffer for another packet type.
3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to switch between generation of a first packet type including a first amount of the communication data and another packet type including a second amount of the communication data.
4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry is configured to switch between generation of different packet types, including respective different amounts of the communication data.
5. The device of claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry is configured to extract the communication data only from a first portion of the single buffer for a given packet and only from a second portion of the single buffer for another packet.
6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry is configured to offset address the single buffer to extract the communication data from only the portion of the single buffer.
7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the communication circuitry comprises wireless communication circuitry.
8. A communication method comprising:
storing communication data within a buffer, the communication data comprising a plurality of speech samples having different numbers of data samples and more than one type of communications quality;
extracting, by control circuitry coupled with the single buffer, the communication data from only a portion of the single buffer;
providing a packet including the communication data only extracted from the portion of the single buffer; and
communicating, by communication circuitry, the packet after the providing step.
9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
extracting the communication data from the entire single buffer; and
providing a packet including the communication data extracted from the entire single buffer.
10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the extracting step further comprises:
selectively addressing the single buffer using an offset address.
11. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the extracting step further comprises:
extracting the communication data from one of a first portion of the single buffer and a second portion of the single buffer; and the providing step further comprises:
providing the packet, including the communication data, from the first portion of the single buffer, and providing another packet, including the communication data, from the second portion of the single buffer.