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US 2001/0012271 A1Published application
Improved acknowledgement of bandwidth requests for the block transfer of data
OwnerArthur W. Bergerinventor
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Acknowledgment of acceptance of a request for bandwidth for a block transfer connection is delayed at the public network side of a boundary between a public network and a private destination network. As a result, each network element within the private destination network can either reject or reduce the requested rate encoded in a resource management (RM) cell to a level that the network element can grant. An acknowledgment RM cell is only then issued from the private destination network, which indicates either acceptance, rejection, or acceptance at a lower rate. When the source of the connection receives the acknowledgment RM cell from the private destination network, it begins to transmit at a rate that the private destination network and destination end system can support.
A network element within a network that includes first and second portions, the first and second portions of the network being within separate administrative domains, and the network element being within the first network portion, comprising:
A method for propagating a rate request along a block transfer connection between a source and a destination, comprising the steps of:
A method for propagating a rate request received at a network node along a block transfer connection, comprising the steps of:
A destination end system that acknowledges a rate request received from a forward block transfer connection, the forward block transfer connection coupling the destination end system to a source end system through a network along a connection path, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.