less important compared to a response time for the interactions belonging to the other activities application_number US 83846801 A description in the context of the present invention u201c data communications u201d relates to any electrical signal which is propagated in a system wherein the signal contains a digital or an analog representation of data text audio content visual content or the like or any combination thereof this is intended to include telephone communications file transfers command control transactions hypertext virtual reality modeling language executions voice graphics photos music or the like data communications also relates to the packets of content into which these signals may be divided or aggregated there are also substantial equivalents to packeting such as line switching allocation dynamic frequency modulation multiplexing etc furthermore there are certain topological notions and their generalizations that are important for the proper appreciation of the present invention specifically in fig1 5 the nomenclature u201c isolatable sub network u201d and u201c substantially across a node u201d can be more readily understood another important topological notion in the context of the present invention relates to interconnection in data communications networks for simplicity of illustration and explanation these interconnections are illustrated and described as if they are simple single lines in actuality the number of lines depends on many complex factors among which bandwidth requirements protocol and line quality are the most significant in large scale data communication networks there often exist complex conduits which may be de convoluted into constituent components of multiplexing modules inverse multiplexing modules and the lines which interconnect them into a functioning data communications conduit for example there are data communications interconnections between two nodes that use multi link.