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