Patent ID: 7720063
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A TCP acceleration apparatus for sending packets to a destination client, said apparatus comprising: plural input queues each associated with a service level and configured to store plural session packet lists having packets from different TCP sessions stored in a same input queue, each session packet list including packets from only one TCP session, each input queue associated with a service level, and all packets in the plural session packet lists having the service level of the input queue in which the packets are stored; a distributor connected to the input queues and to the client, said distributor configured to remove a packet from a selected session packet list at a top of an input queue for transmission to the client; and said input queue at the service level selected by the distributor further configured to move the selected session packet list to a bottom of the input queue after the packet is removed by the distributor.