Packet loss recovery on a wireless link in a transmission layer protocol session

An article of manufacture for processing a packet on a wireless segment of an end-to-end network connection, comprising a non-transitory machine readable storage medium containing one or more programs which when executed implement the steps of:

• obtaining said packet from a link layer;
• determining whether said packet comprises one or more of a lost packet and a malformed packet;
• inspecting said packet in a transport layer to retrieve application semantic information from said packet used to determine if an application associated with said packet is substantially tolerant to one or more of lost and malformed data based on one or more of information from said link layer and information from a deep packet inspection;
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• generating one or more of a non-original packet and a corrected packet for said application associated with said packet to replace one or more of said lost packet and said malformed packet if said application is substantially tolerant to one or more of lost and malformed data, wherein said non-original packet is generated using application semantic information from the deep packet inspection and conforms to semantic requirements of one or more of a network layer, a transmission layer and an application layer and wherein said link layer provides said non-original packet to a transmission layer with a lost packet notification for a particular end-to-end flow, and wherein said corrected packet corrects one or more bits in said malformed packet to conform to application layer semantic requirements and wherein said link layer provides said corrected packet for the particular end-to-end flow to a higher layer.