Patent ID: 8014289

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving at a client transport layer a request from a client application; at said client transport layer, controlling the flow of information corresponding to a client's reception of said request's response, said controlling comprising: sending a request for a first contiguous portion of said response; receiving a first section of said first contiguous portion; not receiving a second section of said first contiguous portion; receiving a third section of said first contiguous portion, where, said first section precedes said second section and said second section precedes said third section in said first contiguous portion's sequence order; sending a request for a second contiguous portion of said response, said second contiguous portion corresponding to a next contiguous portion of said response immediately following said first contiguous portion in said response's sequence order, said second contiguous portion having a size corresponding to said first contiguous portion's size less said second section's size; and, continuously requesting and receiving, while said second section remains not received and said client remains waiting to receive said second section, subsequent contiguous portions of said response in order of said response's sequence order such that a window of said second contiguous portion's size effectively slides without limit toward the end of said response.