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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1998
Packet data communication protocol with reduced acknowledgements in a client/server computing system
Applicant:
Inventor:
Andrew David James Banks, Romsey, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 ;
Abstract
A method of communicating packet based digital data over a communications network between a sender and a receiver, includes steps of sending a request, the request having a plurality of packets, to a receiver; receiving an acknowledgement from the receiver for each packet of the request; receiving a reply from the receiver, the reply having a plurality of packets, at least one of the packets including an indication that the packet need not be acknowledged upon receipt; and acknowledging only the packets of the reply that do not contain the indication.