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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2008
Kavitha V. M. Baratakke, Austin, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Kiet H. Lam, Round Rock, TX (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
Kavitha V. M. Baratakke, Austin, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Kiet H. Lam, Round Rock, TX (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides receiving and transmitting devices for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path. The transmitting device comprises an interface and a control unit coupled to the interface. The control unit is adapted to negotiate a packet size with a remote device. The control unit is also adapted to transmit a data packet of up to the negotiated size. The control unit is further adapted to receive acknowledgments from the remote device associated with one or more fragments, fragmented at the transport-level, of the transmitted data packet. The receiving device comprises an interface and a control unit coupled to the interface. The control unit is adapted to receive two or more fragments of a data packet transmitted by a remote device. The control unit is also adapted to transmit one or more acknowledgments to the remote device based on the received fragments.