Patent ID: 7000024

Claim:
In a computerized device, a method for communicating with an external transmission control protocol device, the method comprising the steps of: providing an acknowledgment message to the external transmission control protocol device in response to a synchronization message from the external transmission control protocol device; receiving a request message for content from the external transmission control protocol device; sending, to the external transmission control protocol device, a reply message having at least a portion of the content, regardless of whether the computerized device received an acknowledgment message from the external transmission control protocol device in response to the acknowledgment message provided by the computerized device to the external transmission control protocol device, wherein the step of sending includes transmitting a content segment; comparing an acknowledgment number received from the external transmission control protocol device to an aggregate size of the content; when the acknowledgment number is one of greater than and equal to the aggregate size of the content, refraining from sending another content segment; and when the acknowledgment number is less than the size of the aggregate content, sending another content segment.