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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert L Packer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Packeteer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370231 ; 370236 ; 370428 ; 370522 ; 714748 ; 714749 ;
Abstract
A method is provided for preventing gratuitous retransmission of data from being propagated through a network which includes holding data to be retransmitted for a minimum time period. If an acknowledgment occurs while the retransmitted data is still being held, then the retransmitted data is discarded rather than propagated through the network. The invention also provides for selectively holding retransmissions based upon ascertainable factors about the underlying connection activity, such as number of successful transmissions.