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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Aseem Vaid, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Sawhney, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ukiah Software, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713201 ; 709235 ;
Abstract
A method for managing quality of service in a firewall server (110), the firewall server (11) coupling a data source to a data receiver, includes the steps of estimating a bit rate over a round-trip-time between the data source and the data receiver, receiving a receive acknowlegment signal from the data receiver, thereafter delaying transmission of a receive acknowlegment signal when the bit rate is greater than a bit rate limit, and transmitting the receive acknowlegment signal to the data source when the bit rate is not greater than the bit