Patent ID: 9553818
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method performed by one or more data processing apparatus, the method comprising: estimating an amount of load offered to be transmitted; transmitting data over a first communications link of two or more different types of communications links while the estimated offered load is less than or equal to a specified amount, wherein transmitting data over the first communications link comprises transmitting data only over a set of one or more first channels while the estimated offered load is less than or equal to the specified amount; determining that the estimated offered load exceeds the specified amount; transmitting data over both of the first communications link and a second communications link of the two or more different types of communications links in response to determining that the estimated offered load has exceeded the specified amount, wherein transmitting data over both of the first communications link and the second communications link comprises transmitting data over both of the set of one or more first channels and a set of one or more second channels when the estimated offered load exceeds the specified amount; determining that the estimated offered load has reduced to less than the specified amount; and halting transmissions of the data over the second communications link in response to determining that the estimated offered load has reduced to less than the specified amount.