| 摘要 |
The present invention is directed to providing a method and apparatus for efficiently compressing and reconstructing a header of a real time communication packet. In a header compressor (28), a header field value is applied to a modulo X operator (101) which can, for example, divide the header field value by a value X, and output the remainder. Optionally, a checksum (38) may be appended to the remainder. The header field value may be scaled (35) prior to being applied to the modulo X operator (101). The compressed header field which is output from the header compressor (28) includes the remainder with or without the checksum appended. A header decompressor (53) includes a field reconstructor (110) which reconstructs the received compressed header field (111) in response to the remainder value (118) and range information (112). The range information (112) represents a range of possible field values which can be reconstructed from the received remainder value (118).
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