A method is disclosed for determining whether to use a preempt/resume protocol or an alternate protocol in transmitting data packets from a local system to a remote system. Each system informs the other whether it supports preempt/resume and provides the sizes of the largest low priority data packets...http://www.google.de/patents/US5343473?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5343473 - Method of determining whether to use preempt/resume or alternate protocol for data transmission
