Dynamic wait acknowledge for network protocol

A system for acknowledgment of receipt of a message in a network, comprising:

• means for sending a message from a first node of a plurality of nodes destined for a second node of the plurality of nodes;
• means for setting a timer for the first node for receipt of an acknowledgment packet from the second node;
• means for determining if a wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node, wherein the wait acknowledge packet notifies the first node that the message has been sent to a next hop;
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• means for resetting the timer if the wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node.

A method for acknowledgment of receipt of a message in a network, the network including a plurality of nodes, comprising the steps of:

• (a) sending the message from a first node of the plurality of nodes destined for a second node of the plurality of nodes through a sequence of routers, wherein the sequence of routers comprises the path of the message from the first node to the second node;
• (b) setting a timer for the first node for receipt of an acknowledgment packet from the second node;
• (c) determining if a current router of the sequence of routers received the message;
• (d) sending a wait acknowledge packet from the current router to a preceding router if the current router received the message, wherein the wait knowledge packet notifies the preceding router that the message was received by the current router and sent to the next router in the sequence of routers wherein the wait acknowledge packet causes each router preceding the current router to send a wait acknowledge packet to its preceding router in the sequence of routers;
• (e) sending a wait acknowledge packet to the first node from a first router in the sequence of routers if the current router received the message;
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• (f) resetting the timer if the wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node.

A system for acknowledgment of receipt of a message in a network, comprising:

• means for sending the message from a first node of the plurality of nodes to a second node of the plurality of nodes through a sequence of routers, wherein the sequence of routers comprises the path of the message from the first node to the second node;
• means for setting a timer for the first node for receipt of an acknowledgment packet from the second node;
• means for determining if a current router of the sequence of routers received the message;
• means for sending a wait acknowledge packet from the current router to a preceding router if the current router received the message, wherein the wait knowledge packet notifies the preceding router that the message was received by the current router and sent to the next router in the sequence of routers, wherein the wait acknowledge packet causes each router preceding the current router to send a wait acknowledge packet to its preceding router in the sequence of routers;
• means for sending a wait acknowledge packet to the first node from a first router in the sequence of routers if the current router received the message;
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• means for resetting the timer if the wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node.

A method for acknowledgment of receipt of a message in a network, the network including a plurality of nodes, comprising the steps of:

• (a) sending the message from a first node of the plurality of nodes to a second node of the plurality of nodes through a sequence of routers, wherein the sequence of routers comprises the path of the message from the first node to the second node;
• (b) setting a timer for the first node for receipt of an acknowledgment packet from the second node;
• (c) determining if a current router of the sequence of routers received the message;
• (d) sending a wait acknowledge packet from the current router to a preceding router if the current router received the message, wherein the wait knowledge packet notifies the preceding router that the message was received by the current router and sent to the next router in the sequence of routers, wherein the wait acknowledge packet.causes each router preceding the current router to send a wait acknowledge packet to its preceding router in the sequence of routers;
• (e) sending a wait acknowledge packet to the first node from a first router in the sequence of routers if the current router received the message;
• (f) resetting the timer if the wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node;
• (g) determining if the timer has expired if the wait acknowledge packet is not received by the first node;
• (h) determining if a threshold number of retries has been reached if the timer has expired;
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• (i) resending the message and resetting the timer if the threshold number of retries has not been reached.

A system for acknowledgment of receipt of a message in a network, comprising:

• means for sending the message from a first node of the plurality of nodes to a second node of the plurality of nodes through a sequence of routers, wherein the sequence of routers comprises the path of the message from the first node to the second node;
• means for setting a timer for the first node for receipt of an acknowledgment packet from the second node;
• means for determining if a current router of the sequence of routers received the message;
• means for sending a wait acknowledge packet from the current router to a preceding router if the current router received the message, wherein the wait knowledge packet notifies the preceding router that the message was received by the current router and sent to the next router in the sequence of routers, wherein the wait acknowledge packet causes each router preceding the current router to send a wait acknowledge packet to its preceding router in the sequence of routers;
• means for sending a wait acknowledge packet to the first node from a first router in the sequence of routers if the current router received the message;
• means for resetting the timer if the wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node;
• means for determining if the timer has expired if the wait acknowledge packet is not received by the first node;
• means for determining if a threshold number of retries has been reached if the timer has expired;
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• means for resending the message and resetting the timer if the threshold number of retries has not been reached.

A computer readable medium with computer instructions for acknowledgment of receipt of a message in a network, the network including a plurality of nodes, the instructions comprising:

• (a) sending a message from a first node of the plurality of nodes to a second node of the plurality of nodes;
• (b) setting a timer for the first node for receipt of an acknowledgment packet from the second node;
• (c) determining if a wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node, wherein the wait acknowledge packet notifies the first node that the message has been sent to a next hop;
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• (d) resetting the timer if the wait acknowledge packet is received by the first node.