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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1997
David Paul Brooks, Durham, NC (US);
Edward Glen Britton, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Karen M Tracey, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for returning packet acknowledgements from a packet receiving node to a packet sending node of a packet network. During a predefined initial startup phase of a packet connection between the sending and receiving nodes, an acknowledgement is returned to the sending node for every group of X packets received from the sending node. After the expiration of the initial startup phase, an acknowledgement is returned for every W-N packets received from the sending node. W represents the maximum number of packets that can be in transit on the connection at any given time, N is an integer less than W. If packet congestion occurs, the algorithm reverts to returning an acknowledgement for every group of X packets.