IP Library Granted Patent US 7,436,786
Granted Patent B2
US 7,436,786 · App. 10/730,955 · Granted Oct 14, 2008

Telecommunications system for minimizing the effect of white noise data packets for the generation of required white noise on transmission channel utilization

Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,436,786
App. No.
10/730,955
Granted
Oct 14, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

Minimizing the effects of the requisite AGWN packets on transmission channel utilization without diminishing any of the aesthetic quality of the AGWN white noise on the voice or audio communication. A system for minimizing the effect of required generated background noise on said transmission channel utilization comprising the combination of an implementation for forming a transmission stream of sequential digital audio data packets, associating with each audio packet a data code representation of the payload data packet enabling the generation of said background noise and an implementation at a receiving station, responsive to each of said data representations for forming the represented payload data packet enabling said generation of background noise together with means at said receiving station for interspersing said formed payload packets enabling background noise generation between said associated audio data packets and background noise generating means, at said receiving station, responsive to said enabling payload packets for generating the background noise between the audio data packets.

Claims (11)

1. In a telecommunications system providing communication channels for the transmission of packets of audio data between system stations, a method for minimizing the effect of required generated background noise on the transmission channel utilization comprising:

forming a transmission stream of sequential digital audio data packets;

associating with each audio packet, a data code representation of an Additive Gaussian White Noise (AGWN) payload data packet enabling the generation of said background noise;

forming the represented Additive Gaussian White Noise (AGWN) payload data packet enabling said generation of background noise responsive to the receipt of each of said data representations at a system receiving station;

interspersing said formed Additive Gaussian White Noise (AGWN) payload packets enabling background noise generation between said associated audio data packets at said receiving station; and

generating said background noise between said audio data packets, at said receiving station, responsive to said enabling AGWN payload packets.

2. The telecommunication method of claim 1 wherein said audio data packets are voice data packets.

3. The telecommunication method of claim 2 wherein said data code representation includes data representing the duration and amplitude of said AGWN packet.

4. The telecommunications method of claim 1 wherein:

said system is an Internet Protocol (IP) telecommunications system; and

further including the step of interspersing Internet page packets into said transmitted stream whereby said Internet page packets are sequenced in the spaces between voice packets conventionally occupied by AGWN packets.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 9, 2003
From: BAN, OLIVER K.
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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