Patent ID: 8638785

Claim:
A method for transmission of data packets by a first station, the data packets being transmitted to at least two destination nodes belonging to a network comprising a second station, said data packets being associated to services, said data packets being transmitted by said first station to said at least two destination nodes via said second station, wherein the method comprises: routing a set of at least one of the data packets to said second station according to identifiers of said at least two destination nodes, classifying, in association with said second station, said set of at least one of the data packets, the classifying assigns at least a connection between said first station and said second station to said set of at least one of said data packets according to services associated with said set of at least one data packet, the classifying comprising aggregating said services by assigning a same connection to data packets associated with a same service, the classifying being carried out after the routing, a classification function being associated with an identifier of the second station to which the at least two destination nodes are associated, the classification function comprising at least one test function to test at least one parameter of a packet and assign to the packet a connection, transmitting said set on the assigned connection.