Patent ID: 7352695

Claim:
A method of transmitting data traffic received from a plurality of prioritized sources, wherein the method comprises: (a) setting the highest priority source with data traffic waiting for transmission as a current transmission source; (b) transmitting the data traffic from the current transmission source until completion while monitoring the remaining sources for waiting data traffic, wherein if traffic is detected from a source with a higher priority than the current transmission source, completing transmission of a minimum transmittable element from the current transmission source prior to starting transmission of data traffic from the source with higher priority; (c) upon completion of the transmission of data traffic from the current transmission source, going to step (a), wherein the data traffic as received from said plurality of prioritized sources includes control data, and step (b) further comprises incorporating into said control data at least one reassembly indicator for use in reassembling the data traffic upon receipt, and wherein all reassembly indicators needed for reassembling the data traffic upon receipt are incorporated into said control data in such a way as to not increase the amount of said control data already present in said data traffic.