Patent ID: 8751682

Claim:
A method of transferring data between computing devices operable to communicate over an electronic network, comprising: sending data from a source device to a destination device using at least one high speed connection; communicating a descriptor regarding the data from the source device to the destination device using at least one high integrity connection, wherein the descriptor is at least two bits, wherein a first bit, of the descriptor, represents a first block of data of at least a portion of a superblock of data to be sent, and wherein a second bit, of the descriptor, represents a second block of data of at least the portion of the superblock of data to be sent; correlating data received at the destination device to the descriptor received at the destination device; modifying the descriptor to identify data received at the destination device; informing the source device of the identity of data not received by the destination device using the at least one high integrity connection; and resending data not received by the destination device from the source device to the destination device using the at least one high speed connection.