Patent 7573821 was granted and assigned to Intel on August, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method that includes determining a pending data packet count for one or more data packets associated with data to be forwarded from a node to another node on a communication link and then comparing the pending data packet count to a threshold data packet count value. The method further includes forwarding the one or more data packets to the other node at a rate based on the comparison.