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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2013
Stmicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gale L. Shallow, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Benjamin Nelson Darby, Huntsville, AL (US);
Jonathan Evans, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Maynard Darvel Hammond, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Zhifang J. Ni, Plano, TX (US);
Charaf Hanna, Lewisville, TX (US);
STMICROELECTRONICS, INC., Coppell, TX (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method suited for improved overall data transmission having a hardware-based transceiver configured for transmitting upstream data with suppressed data packets. In TCP sessions between devices, a server seeks an 'acknowledgement' that the downstream data transmission has been received by a client. Some data packets sent upstream may contain only TCP acknowledgement data and therefore may be combined with other purely TCP acknowledgement data packets in order to reduce the impact of the TCP acknowledgement packets on the overall upstream data throughput. In addition, this results in increased TCP performance in the downstream transmission direction as well because the algorithm enables replacing earlier arriving ACK packets with later arriving ACK packets which allows the device to send all TCP ACK information known to the suppressor at the earliest possible time.