Patent ID: 8400925

Claim:
A method of controlling a rate of transmission from a first, transmitting node to a second, recipient node; the method comprising: transmitting a stream from the first node to the second node over a first network route; transmitting further data from the first node to a third node over a second network route substantially overlapping with the first network route, the further data comprising data that is different from data of the stream data; receiving feedback at the first node from the third node regarding transmission of the further data to the third node over the second network route; based on said feedback from the third node, controlling a rate of transmission of the stream to the second node over the first network route; and further comprising: detecting a measure indicative of whether a network route substantially overlaps with another network route, and if not switching to an alternative mode of operation in which a rate of transmission is controlled based on feedback from a node that receives a transmitted stream without feedback from a different node that does not receive the transmitted stream.