Patent ID: 8340655
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of transmitting information between a first device and a second device, the method comprising: receiving at a first node a plurality of data packets representing the information from said first device, each of said data packets including a first header indicative of the identity of said second device; adding, at said first node, to each of said data packets a second header indicative of the identity of one of a plurality of different intermediate destinations, wherein said first node is positioned in a communication path between said first device and said plurality of intermediate destinations; monitoring communication characteristics of a plurality of communications systems; transmitting said data packets by said first node distributing respective ones of said data packets received from said first device over different ones of the plurality of communications systems to said plurality of intermediate destinations based on the indications of said second headers and in dependence upon the monitored characteristics; and re-assembling said data packets into a form said data packets took when originally transmitted by said first device and delivering said re-assembled data packets to said second device based on the indication of said first headers, wherein said data packets are transmitted by at least two of said plurality of communications systems by one or more packet data protocol (PDP) channels formed by each of said at least two communications systems.