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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2006
Naveen Kumar Kakani, Irving, TX (US);
Shashikant Maheshwari, Irving, TX (US);
Miikka Huomo, Vantaa, FI;
Naveen Kumar Kakani, Irving, TX (US);
Shashikant Maheshwari, Irving, TX (US);
Miikka Huomo, Vantaa, FI;
Nokia Corporation, , FI;
Abstract
In the preferred embodiments, it is first determined whether or not a TCP connection from a sending device to a receiving device in the wireless communications network is in a slow start phase. If the TCP connection is in a slow start phase, then the data to be sent in the TCP connection that is allocated a priority that is higher than the priority allocated to other data to be sent by the sending device. The sending device may be a mobile terminal, a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), a device in a WiMAX environment or other network device, and the method of the preferred embodiments may be implemented by software installed and executed on the network device.