Patent ID: 7969883

Claim:
A transmitter device for transmitting information packets on a lossy communication path in a network, said information packets constituting a flow, said transmitter device comprising: means for receiving said information packets; means for transmitting said information packets; means for receiving a retransmission request for at least part of said information packets; and means for retransmitting said part of said information packets, wherein said means for retransmitting is configured to associate said information packets with subflows based on at least one traffic parameter and to retransmit said part of said information packets in accordance with their associated subflow, wherein said flow includes information packets of more than one traffic type, the flow including one or more subflows, wherein said subflow includes information packets of a single traffic type, wherein each traffic type is defined by the at least one traffic parameter, wherein each traffic parameter designates at least one of a traffic class of the subflow, a source of the subflow, a destination of the subflow, and a protocol used by the subflow.