Patent ID: 8089879
Filing Date: 2012-01-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of transmitting data packets, comprising: transmitting a flow control request from a destination device; inserting a flow control acknowledgment, including a destination device flow control status indicator, for the destination device in a non-payload portion of a data packet responsive to the flow control request; generating an acknowledgment sequence number to be inserted in a portion of the data packet, the acknowledgment sequence number indicating a transmission sequence number of a data packet that has been received from the destination device, transmitting the data packet to the destination device with the flow control acknowledgment, the flow control acknowledgment being transmitted in response to the flow control request from the destination device wherein the flow control acknowledgment with a pre-allocated acknowledgment sequence number is inserted in place of the generated acknowledgment sequence number in said portion prior to said step of transmitting the data packet to the destination device.