Patent ID: 11909643
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for facilitating sender-side congestion control, the method comprising:
maintaining, in a memory device of a responder device, a first tracker for all requests and a second tracker for a privileged group of requests, wherein a tracker is a buffer capable of tracking in-progress requests accepted by the tracker;
selecting, by the responder device, a first group from a set of groups as the privileged group;
receiving, by the responder device, a request from a requesting device;
determining that a request from a requesting device cannot be accepted into the first tracker;
determining whether the request belongs to the first group based on a header field of the request;
in response to the request belonging to the first group, selecting the request for accepting into the second tracker and performing a set of operations indicated in the request;
determining that a respective request belonging to the first group has been accepted; and
selecting a second group from the set of groups as the privileged group.