US Patent 7606234 Multi-stream acknowledgement scheduling

Patent 7606234 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

76062340

Date of Patent

October 20, 2009

Patent Application Number

111537210

Date Filed

June 14, 2005

Patent Primary Examiner

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Jason E Mattis

Patent abstract

Acknowledgement packets and data packets of multiple streams are reordered for transmission in order to gain good overall utilization of both uploading and downloading links. Durations of various packets in a transmit queue may evaluated to determine whether a later packet in the transmit queue can be transmitted ahead of an earlier packet in the transmit queue. A relative acknowledgement priority parameter for a node effectively tunes the amount of transmit bandwidth available to increase acknowledgment transmissions and therefore increase the node's receive rate from another node.