Patent ID: 9379989
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of avoiding congestion in a network, the method comprising: sending, from a sending computer, a first set of data units to a target computer in the network at a sending time, the first set of data units being sent at a first rate of transmission; receiving, at the sending computer, a response to the first set of data units from the target computer at a receiving time after the sending time; obtaining, at the sending computer, a round-trip time indicative of a difference between the receiving time and the sending time; computing, at the sending computer, a second rate of transmission based on a factor that includes the round-trip time, the second rate of transmission serving to avoid congestion in the network; and sending, from the sending computer, a second set of data units to the target computer at the second rate of transmission; wherein the network uses a user datagram protocol (UDP); wherein a data unit of the first set of data units is a probing datagram having a header in which a destination of the probing datagram is indicated, and the response is a response datagram having a header; wherein the method further comprises: