Patent ID: 8437284
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for retransmitting network packets between a sender and a receiver to reduce transmission errors associated with a connection, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a device, an indication that a network packet transmitted via a connection was not received by the receiver; (b) retransmitting, by the device, the network packet to the receiver in response to the indication; (c) determining, by the device, a packet loss rate associated with the connection; (d) identifying, by the device, a predetermined packet loss rate threshold of a plurality of predetermined packet loss rate thresholds that the determined packet loss rate exceeds, each predetermined packet loss rate threshold corresponding to a number of additional retransmissions to be retransmitted; (e) identifying, by the device, the number of additional retransmissions to be retransmitted corresponding to the identified packet loss rate threshold of the plurality of predetermined packet loss rate thresholds; and (f) retransmitting, by the device responsive to the identification of the number of additional retransmissions to be retransmitted, the network packet a number of times equal to the identified number of additional retransmissions.