Patent ID: 8443100

Claim:
A server, comprising: a partitioning module configured to partition data at an application layer of the server, wherein the data is to be transmitted from the server to a handheld device concurrently via i) a first wireless link and ii) a second wireless link, and wherein the partitioning is performed in response to a rate of flow of data via i) the first wireless link or ii) the second wireless link, and partition data, received from the application layer, at a session layer of the server into i) a first component and ii) a second component; and a transmit module configured to concurrently transmit from the server to the handheld device i) the first component via the first wireless link and ii) the second component via the second wireless link, wherein the server includes i) a first protocol stack associated with the first wireless link, and ii) a second protocol stack associated with the second wireless link; wherein each of the first protocol stack and the second protocol stack includes a physical layer, a data link layer, wherein the data link layer is above the physical layer, a network layer, wherein the network layer is above the data link layer, and a transport layer, wherein the transport layer is above the network layer; wherein the session layer is above each of i) the transport layer of the first protocol stack and ii) the transport layer of the second protocol stack; and wherein the application layer is above the session layer.