Patent ID: 7911953

Claim:
A network device to facilitate multilink communications using multilink traffic, the network device comprising: a control unit to: apply a quality-of-service (QoS) policy to incoming traffic, where the QoS policy associates a first priority with a first portion of incoming traffic and a second priority with a second portion of the incoming traffic; fragment one of the first portion or the second portion of the incoming traffic, based on which of the first portion or the second portion has a higher priority, to produce a plurality of fragments; associate a sequence number with each the plurality of fragments; sequence, based on the sequence numbers, the fragmented one of the first portion or the second portion of the incoming traffic with a non-fragmented portion of the incoming traffic to produce sequenced traffic; and make a first portion of the sequenced traffic available as a first portion of the multilink traffic, and make a second portion of the sequenced traffic available as a second portion of the multilink traffic.