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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 17, 2005
Daniel Friedman, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Robert Torres, New Market, MD (US);
Patrick Stevens, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Craig Schweinhart, Rockville, MD (US);
Mangala Kannan, Potomac, MD (US);
Deepak Arur, McLean, VA (US);
Peter Lin, North Potomac, MD (US);
Matthew Butehorn, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Ken Burrell, Rockville, MD (US);
Daniel Friedman, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Robert Torres, New Market, MD (US);
Patrick Stevens, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Craig Schweinhart, Rockville, MD (US);
Mangala Kannan, Potomac, MD (US);
Deepak Arur, McLean, VA (US);
Peter Lin, North Potomac, MD (US);
Matthew Butehorn, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Ken Burrell, Rockville, MD (US);
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
An approach for providing flow control in a radio communication system is disclosed. A request from a non-satellite system specific side of a transport interface is made to a system specific side of the transport interface for a flow control allocation that specifies an amount of data to be stored in a queue of the system specific side of the transport interface. The system specific side supports a signaling function that is based on a transmission characteristic of the radio communication system. The flow control allocation is generated based upon availability of the queue, wherein the destination address is a link layer address of the satellite communication system. This arrangement has particular applicability to a satellite network (e.g., Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network) that provides data communication services.