Patent ID: 7839952

Claim:
A method for communication, comprising: sending first data over a first communication link to a destination communication system at a first data rate, which can be varied; sending second data, comprising at least a portion of the first data, over a second communication link, to the destination communication system at a second data rate, which can be varied; jointly setting respective first and second data rates of the first and second communication links to values that enable selective extraction of at least the portion of the first data from one of the communication links at the destination communication system; wherein jointly setting the first and second data rates comprises forcing a data rate on one of the first and second communication links to have a sub-optimal value; wherein the sub-optimal value causes sub-optimal throughput on the one of the first and second communication links, but provides reliable selective extraction of the first data from the first and second communication links; and at the destination communication system, selectively extracting at least the portion of the first data from one of the first and second data.