Patent ID: 8320250

Claim:
A communication entity located at one end of a high latency communication link between a first transceiver entity and a second transceiver entity, the communication entity comprising: a processor; communication logic for supporting Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communications between the first transceiver entity and the second transceiver entity, proxy logic for inspecting a received segment, wherein each of the communication logic and the proxy logic is embodied as hardware, as a series of operating instructions configured to direct operation of the processor or as a combination thereof, wherein the proxy logic is operable, in response to identifying that the received segment does not contain data, to transparently allow a plurality of synchronising segments comprising a 3-way handshake to pass between the first transceiver entity and the second transceiver entity through the proxy logic for all TCP connections observed by the proxy logic, and the proxy logic is further operable to generate locally at least one acknowledgement (ACK) message based on the plurality of synchronising segments and the received segment and transmit the at least one ACK message prior to receiving acommunication from the second transceiver entity, wherein the 3-way handshake comprises: a synchronisation indication; a synchronisation acknowledgement indication; and an acknowledgement indication.