Detecting change in a transport protocol window size without data transmission

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7613118
APP PUB NO 20060268710A1
SERIAL NO

11133622

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A method detects a change in TCP receive window size while preventing fragmentation of data. A TCP stack receives a segment that advertises a receive window size of zero. If data needs to be sent, and only if so, a timer is started. When the timer expires, a TCP segment that contains a first sequence number value equal to second sequence number representing sent but unacknowledged data minus one, and a segment length value of zero, is sent. Without sending a fragment of data, this triggers a peer TCP process to send an updated window size. A TCP ACK segment is received and contains an updated receive window size. If the updated receive window size is greater than a specified value, then the data is sent. Otherwise, a counter is incremented, and the steps are re-performed if the counter is less than a specified value.

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CISCO TECHNLOGY INC170 WEST TASMAN DRIVE SAN JOSE CA 95134-1706

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Appanna, Chandrashekhar Cupertino , US 40 1279
Khare, Amol Sunnyvale , US 13 681
Ramaiah, Anantha Sunnyvale , US 33 922

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