Patent ID: 8094681

Claim:
A computer implemented method for controlling transmission of data, the computer implemented method comprising: receiving data in parallel from a source at a plurality of gateways for distribution using a selected priority; and transmitting the data from the plurality of gateways to a plurality of receivers using the selected priority, wherein every gateway in the plurality of gateways has an adaptive bandwidth control process and a respective set of parameters for controlling the adaptive bandwidth control process for sending the data at the selected priority and wherein transmission of the data from each gateway for the selected priority has a different impact on other traffic at different gateways in the plurality of gateways for the selected priority when different values are set for the set of parameters for the different gateways, and wherein the set of parameters comprise a threshold, beta, and a maximum wait time, wherein the threshold is a percentage of a way from a minimum round trip time to a maximum round trip time, and wherein the beta is an integer that indicates a maximum number of packets in a backlog router per connection before a window is decreased by one packet, and wherein the maximum wait time indicates what multiple of the maximum round trip time a connection will wait to send before resetting.