Patent ID: 8125989

Claim:
A system for transmitting a data flow, comprising: an auxiliary transmitter device interconnected between a transmitter device acting as an endpoint and a plurality of bundled network access links of a network, the plurality of bundled network access links including at least two network access links differing from one another with respect to at least one of bandwidth and transmission time, the auxiliary transmitter device being configured: to encapsulate data packets of a data flow provided by the transmitter device for delivery to a receiver device acting as another endpoint via an end-to-end-based transmission protocol in which the transmitter device and the receiver device must independently inform one another about the receipt or absence of a data packet, to transmit the encapsulated data packets via the plurality of bundled network access links of the network, and to provide receipt acknowledgments to the transmitter device for the transmitted encapsulated data packets in the name of the receiver device independent of receipt acknowledgments generated by the receiver device; and an auxiliary receiver device interconnected between the plurality of bundled network access links and the receiver device, the auxiliary receiver device being configured to receive and decapsulate the transmitted encapsulated data packets of the data flow and to route the decapsulated data packets in the sequence of the data flow to the receiver device.