Patent ID: 7760655

Claim:
A method for transfer of data over a data connection from a transmitter to a receiver by use of data packets that each comprise an identifier and by use of said identifier the receiver can identify a respective data packet, comprising the steps of: given a free transfer capacity of the data connection, transferring with the transmitter a plurality of data packets and for each transferred data packet also transferring directly following each data packet in a pause between adjacent data packets at least one respective repetition packet, said respective repetition packet comprising an identifier of the respective transferred data packet, the transferred data packets each comprising useable data in a respective data block, and the repetition packets having no data blocks with said useable data of the respective transferred data block and are thus substantially shorter than the respective transferred data block; and with the receiver entirely discarding incorrectly received data packets and incorrectly received repetition packets, and, given a faulty transfer of a respective data packet, identifying the faulty transferred data packet using the identifier of the faulty transferred data packet in the respective repetition packets.