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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert L Packer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Packeteer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370231 ; 370232 ; 370235 ;
Abstract
A method for explicit data rate control is introduced into a packet communication environment (10) which does not have data rate supervision by adding latency to the acknowledgment (ACK) packet and by adjusting the size of the flow control window associated with the packet in order to directly control the data rate of the source data at the station (12 or 14) originating the packet.