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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2007
Applicants:

Simon Schneider, Herne, DE;

Jan Frey, Münster, DE;

Daniel Wernet, Bochum, DE;

Timo Ströhlein, Herne, DE;

Inventors:

Simon Schneider, Herne, DE;

Jan Frey, Münster, DE;

Daniel Wernet, Bochum, DE;

Timo Ströhlein, Herne, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/1685 (2013.01); H04L 1/1874 (2013.01); H04L 47/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus, method, computer program product and system are provided for initiating a request for acknowledgment of successfully, or unsuccessfully, transmitted data packets, wherein the request is initiated in response to the detection of a potential overload situation or an upcoming resource limitation. In particular, a transmitter may monitor certain resources associated with the transmitter, such as memory consumption or processing capacity, and automatically request that a receiver transmit an acknowledgement when a potential overload of one or more of the resources is detected. This may occur, for example, when it is determined that memory consumption has exceeded a predefined threshold or that the processing capacity has been substantially exhausted, to name a few.


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