Patent ID: 7848350

Claim:
A method comprising: a router receiving an incoming packet sequence from one of a X.25 connection and a Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) connection, where the incoming packet sequence has at least one incoming packet; the router translating the incoming packet sequence into at least one outgoing packet, the translating comprising translating between multiple X.25 data packets and one or more TCP/IP data packets, each of the one or more TCP/IP data packets containing a record boundary preservation (RBP) header and a single data record; the router passing a M-bit indicator and a Q-bit indicator in a first packet of the incoming packet sequence to the at least one outgoing packet, the M-bit indicator indicating whether the first packet of the incoming packet sequence is a last packet of the incoming packet sequence, and the Q-bit indicator indicating control information in the incoming packet sequence; the router forwarding the at least one outgoing packet onto the other of the X.25 connection and the TCP/IP connection; and the router enabling RBP Q-bit support.