Patent ID: 11902207
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
sending a data packet in a transmission burst of packets from a first transceiver to a second transceiver, the data packet configured according to a transmission control protocol (TCP), the second transceiver operating according to a delayed acknowledgement (ACK) protocol;
determining a first condition that causes the second transceiver to delay sending an ACK packet in accordance with the delayed ACK protocol, wherein determining the first condition comprises determining that the transmission burst of packets comprises an odd number of packets, or an even number of packets;
in response to determining the first condition, triggering the second transceiver to send the ACK packet according to the delayed ACK protocol by sending, from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, an additional packet; and
receiving, at the first transceiver, the ACK packet from the second transceiver responsive to the additional packet.