A system and method for providing service guarantees for data flows between an initiator component and a target component. For each data flow, a set of channels is selected to carry the data flow from initiator to target. The individual performance guarantees of the selected channels are aligned to be...http://www.google.de/patents/US6330225?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6330225 - Communication system and method for different quality of service guarantees for different data flows