System for improved transmission of acknowledgements within a packet data network
US6438108B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 11, 1999 |
| Grant date | Aug 20, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 11, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L1/187
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for transmitting acknowledgments from an acknowledgment queue in a receiving system to a receiving system in response to receipt of a data packet from the receiving system is disclosed. An acknowledgment compressor co-located with an acknowledgment queue of the receiving system compresses a plurality of acknowledgments within the acknowledgment queue into a single acknowledgment packet. The single acknowledgment packet is transmitted from the receiving system to the sending system over a packet data network wherein it is intercepted at some point by an acknowledgment decompressor prior to receipt by the sending system. The acknowledgment decompressor regenerates the plurality of acknowledgments from the single acknowledgment packet and transmits the decompressed plurality of acknowledgments to the sending system.
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