Patent ID: 8184531

Claim:
Method of data transmission within a telecommunications system including a plurality of terminals capable of exchanging data flows through a plurality of communications networks, the method comprising: a step of comparison between a maximum throughput rate value offered by an interface through which a particular stream travels and a cumulative value resulting from a sum of throughput rate values to be assigned to the streams that are to travel through said interface, a step of obtaining a setting value, among a plurality of nominal throughput rate values acceptable for at least one particular data stream, and after said obtaining step is executed, a step of setting a throughput rate by a sender entity sending said particular stream, if the maximum throughput rate value offered by the interface is below the cumulative value, wherein the lowest value between said setting value and the value currently assigned to said particular stream by the sending entity is assigned to the throughput rate of said particular stream, a step of switching by one of the terminals communicating through numerous interfaces, during which another interface is assigned to a stream subjected to this switching step when the maximum throughput rate value offered by the interface is below the cumulative value that results from said step of setting.