Patent ID: 11876719
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. The processor of claim 15, the operations further comprising:
inspecting a packet descriptor of a fourth TCP ACK packet of the TCP packets in the queue;
identifying a fourth TCP ACK Generation Count and a fourth flow identifier corresponding to the fourth TCP ACK packet included in the packet descriptor of the fourth TCP ACK packet;
determining that the fourth TCP ACK Generation Count and the fourth flow identifier are valid;
determining that (i) the fourth flow identifier is the same as the first flow identifier in the first entry in the queue, and (ii) the fourth TCP ACK Generation Count is different than the first TCP ACK Generation Count in the first entry in the queue; and
in response to the determination, updating the first entry by replacing the first TCP ACK Generation Count stored in the second field of the first entry with the fourth TCP ACK Generation Count.