Patent ID: 8503294

Claim:
A transport layer relay method performed by a transport layer relay device, the method comprising: terminating, at the transport layer relay device, a first transport layer connection between a first source terminal and a first destination terminal at a first transmission rate in the transport layer and a second transport layer connection between a second source terminal and a second destination terminal at a second transmission rate in the transport layer; relaying data flow of said first transport layer connection to said first destination terminal as a first relay connection and data flow of said second transport layer connection to said second destination terminal as a second relay connection to respectively separate said first and second transport layer connections; determining a total transmission rate of said first and second relay connections based on the first and second transmission rates; determining a first reallocated transmission rate and a second reallocated transmission rate, the first reallocated transmission rate and the second reallocated transmission rate apportioned from the total transmission rate; and allocating the determined first reallocated transmission rate to said first relay connection and the determined second reallocated transmission rate to said second relay connection, wherein the first source terminal, the second source terminal, the first destination terminal, and the second destination terminal are different from each other.