Patent ID: 11924678
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. Computer readable apparatus comprising a non-transitory storage medium, the non-transitory storage medium comprising at least one computer program having a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions configured to, when executed on a processing apparatus, cause a provider equipment (PE) node apparatus to:
based at least on a requirement to cease transmission on wireless channels supporting current TCP connections with endpoint devices, transmit at least one message to the endpoint devices, the at least one message configured to cause the endpoint devices to continue transmitting currently buffered uplink (UL) data to the PE node apparatus via respective UL TCP connections using corresponding last successful TCP congestion window (cwin) sizes;
transmit currently buffered downlink (DL) data from the PE node apparatus to the endpoint devices via respective DL TCP connections using corresponding last successful TCP cwin sizes; and
for each of the DL TCP connections supported by a wireless channel, determine a ratio of a current capacity of the wireless channel and a nominal capacity of a one beam wireless channel, and utilize the determined ratio to select, for a corresponding TCP slow start mechanism, an initial slow start packet size and a slow start packet size increment.