Transport accelerator implementing extended transmission control functionality

An apparatus for accelerating, by a transport accelerator (TA) of a client device, delivery of content to a user agent (UA) of the client device, the apparatus comprising:

• means for requesting, by a connection manager (CM) of the TA, one or more chunks of content from a content server;
• means for receiving, by the CM, data sent in response to the requesting the one or more chunks of content, wherein the received data is missing data from a requested chunk of the one or more chunks of content;
• means for providing, by the CM to the content server, a receipt acknowledgement (ACK) for at least the missing data;
• and
• means for passing the received data, which is missing data from a requested chunk of the one or more chunks of content, through a communication protocol stack to an application for assembly into a one or more content objects.

A computer program product for accelerating, by a transport accelerator (TA) of a client device, delivery of content to a user agent (UA) of the client device, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code recorded thereon, the program code including:
• code to request, by a connection manager (CM) of the TA, one or more chunks of content from a content server;
• code to receive, by the CM, data sent in response to the requesting the one or more chunks of content, wherein the received data is missing data from a requested chunk of the one or more chunks of content;
• code to provide, by the CM to the content server, a receipt acknowledgement (ACK) for at least the missing data;
• and
• code to pass the received data, which is missing data from a requested chunk of the one or more chunks of content, through a communication protocol stack to an application for assembly into a one or more content objects.

An apparatus configured for accelerating, by a transport accelerator (TA) of a client device, delivery of content to a user agent (UA) of the client device, the apparatus comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the at least one processor,
• wherein the at least one processor is configured:
• to request, by a connection manager (CM) of the TA from a content server, one or more chunks of content;
• to receive, by the CM, data sent in response to the requesting the one or more chunks of content, wherein the received data is missing data from a requested chunk of the one or more chunks of content;
• to provide, by the CM to the content server, a receipt acknowledgement (ACK) for at least the missing data;
• and
• to pass the received data, which is missing data from a requested chunk of the one or more chunks of content, through a communication protocol stack to an application for assembly into a one or more content objects.