Patent ID: 7903292

Claim:
A method for transmitting data over a data line of a network comprising: providing a user end device coupled to the data line via an interface, wherein a bandwidth for data transmission over the data line is available at the interface, and the data line connecting the user device and a remote server; a user at the user end device starting a print process on the remote server; before or during transmission of first data generated by the print process on the data line of the network, the user at the user end device coupled to the data line entering a command for adjusting a data rate for transmitting the first data generated by the print process from the remote server to the user end device in order to subdivide the bandwidth of the data line at the interface into at least two bandwidth portions, wherein the user controls the data transmission on the data line, and wherein a first predefined bandwidth portion of the at least two bandwidth portions of the data line is allocated to the first data generated by the print process to be transmitted in a first data transmission from the remote server to the user end device, and further wherein at least one second bandwidth portion other than the first predefined bandwidth portion of the data line is adapted for transmission of second data in a second data transmission independent from the first data transmission, wherein the at least one second bandwidth portion is usable for bidirectional data transmission.