Patent ID: 8018850

Claim:
A method for transmitting data comprising: (a) defining a first average rate to transmit a first plurality of packets of said data from a sender to a receiver; (b) defining a second average rate to transmit a second plurality of packets of said data from said sender to said receiver, said second plurality of packets comprising a subset of said first plurality of packets, wherein said second plurality of packets is less than said first plurality of packets, wherein said second average rate is greater than said first average rate; (c) transmitting said second plurality of packets from said sender to said receiver over a wireless interconnection; (d) estimating the bandwidth of said wireless interconnection; (e) inferring a condition of said wireless interconnection based upon said bandwidth, where said condition is at least one of a bit error ratio and a packet error ratio; and (f) modifying the amount of data contained in packets to be transmitted across said wireless interconnection based upon said condition.