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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2011
Cheng Jin, Pasadena, CA (US);
George S. Lee, San Marino, CA (US);
Steven Low, La Canada, CA (US);
Darren NG, Pasadena, CA (US);
Ryan Witt, New York, NY (US);
Cheng Jin, Pasadena, CA (US);
George S. Lee, San Marino, CA (US);
Steven Low, La Canada, CA (US);
Darren Ng, Pasadena, CA (US);
Ryan Witt, New York, NY (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling size of a receive window includes, at a transmitting device, transmitting packets over a communication channel from the transmitting device to a receiver, receiving acknowledgment packets from the receiver corresponding to the transmitted packets, determining a backlog parameter for the receiver in accordance with a parameter value in the received acknowledgment packets, resetting the size of the receive window in accordance with a function of a current size of the receive window and the backlog parameter, and after the resetting, transmitting packets over the communication channel from the transmitting devices to the receiver in accordance with the reset size of the receive window.