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Communications transactional message handling

  • US 6,055,662 A
  • Filed: 12/11/1998
  • Issued: 04/25/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A communications system in which a first terminal is operative to send a transactional message to a second terminal and in which said second terminal is operative to send an acknowledgement of receipt of said transactional message to said first terminal followed by a transactional response to said first terminal;

  • in which the improvement comprises said second terminal being configured to skip sending said acknowledgement to said first terminal and to send said transactional response in place of said acknowledgement, said first terminal being configured to examine the form of said transactional response and said first terminal being configured to accept said transactional response as indicative of receipt of said transactional message by said second terminal if said transactional response is in a correct form.

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