Patent ID: 7768914

Claim:
A method of transmitting data units of a data traffic having a minimum transmittable element and being received from a number of prioritized sources, comprising: a) setting the highest priority source with data traffic waiting for transmission as a current transmission source; b) transmitting the said data units of said data traffic from the current transmission source until completion whilst monitoring the sources for waiting traffic, wherein if traffic is detected from a source with a higher priority than the current transmission source going to step d); c) upon completion, going to step a); and d) completing transmission of a current minimum transmittable element within a current data unit and going to step a); and wherein reassembling said data units of said data traffic based upon a first reassembly indicator indicating a start of a data unit and a second reassembly indicator indicating an end of the data unit, and the reassembly indicators being inherently present in said data units of said data traffic before said transmitting of said step b).