Patent ID: 8665734

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless terminal, comprising: maintaining a plurality of communications connections between said wireless terminal and at least two different receivers connected to a single network node, wherein the single network node is an Internet Protocol (IP) node, and wherein a communication connection exists between said wireless terminal and each receiver; monitoring channel conditions on the plurality of communications connections; dynamically determining a packet size to be used as a function of the monitored channel conditions; changing the length of at least one packet using IP fragmentation to generate portions of packets of a first application in response to a change in the monitored channel conditions, the portions of packets being transmitted over at least one of the plurality of communications connections; selecting a first communications connection for transmitting at least some of the portions of packets of the first application, as a function of said monitored channel conditions, from said plurality of communications; selecting a second communications connection for transmitting at least some of the portions of packets of the first application, as a function of said monitored channel conditions, from said plurality of communications connections; transmitting a first portion of the at least one packet of the first application using the first selected communications connection; and transmitting a second portion of the at least one packet of the first application using the second selected communications connection.