Method for packet buffer management and corresponding apparatus

Process for treating digital data packets received, containing description data timeslots successive flow signal to restore, in which are recorded, in a buffer memory (6), the elements obtained from the packets received , and delivered, mode I first come-first out, recorded in the buffer, characterized elements because a burst of packets that meet a condition burst size on the basis of a delay in receiving assessed detected a priori responsive to receipt of a first packet of the burst, and because the content of the buffer is controlled taking into account the detection of the burst that meets the condition of size.