Systems, processes and integrated circuits for rate and/or diversity adaptation for packet communications

Abstract

A media over packet networking appliance provides a network interface, a voice transducer, and at least one integrated circuit assembly coupling the voice transducer to the network interface. The at least one integrated circuit assembly provides media over packet transmissions and holds bits defining reconstruction of a packet stream having a primary stage and a secondary stage. The secondary stage has one or more of linear predictive coding parameters, long term prediction lags, parity check, and adaptive and fixed codebook gains. The packet stream has an instance of single packet loss, and the reconstruction includes receiving a packet sequence represented by P(n)P(n−1)′, [Lost Packet], P(n+2)P(n+1)′, and P(n+3)P(n+2)′, obtaining as information from the secondary stage one or more of the linear predictive coding parameters, long term prediction lags, parity check, and adaptive and fixed codebook gains, and performing an excitation reconstruction utilizing said packet sequence thus received.

1 . A single-chip integrated circuit comprising:
 a processor circuit; and   a memory on said single-chip integrated circuit holding bits defining reconstruction of a stream of packets with each packet having a primary stage and a secondary stage, the secondary stage having one or more of LPC parameters, LTP lags, parity check, and adaptive and fixed codebook gains of the first stage of a preceding packet, and the reconstruction comprising:   A. receiving a packet sequence having an instance of two consecutive packet losses represented by P(n)P(n−1)′[Lost Packet]P(n+2)P(n+1)′P(n+3)P(n+2);   B. obtaining as information from the secondary stage one or more of the LPC parameters, LTP lags, parity check, and adaptive and fixed codebook gains; and   C. performing an excitation reconstruction to reconstruct a packet (n+2) in a sequence P(n)[−][P(n+2)′−](excitation)P(n+3).   
     
     
         2 . The integrated circuit of  claim 1  in which the packet stream includes secondary stages that contain voice information on the immediately preceding packet, and the performing an excitation reconstruction includes performing an audible voice excitation reconstruction of the lost packet from the voice information in the secondary stage of a packet following the one, lost packet. 
     
     
         3 . The integrated circuit of  claim 1  in which the performing includes performing from the voice information in the secondary stage of a packet immediately following one of the lost packets. 
     
     
         4 . The integrated circuit of  claim 1  in which the receiving includes receiving packets from a packet network. 
     
     
         5 . The integrated circuit of  claim 1  in which the receiving includes receiving a sequence number in each packet. 
     
     
         6 . The integrated circuit of  claim 1  in which the performing includes reproducing audible voice from the voice information in the primary stage of each packet in the stream of packets.