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Systems and methods of providing proxy-based quality of service

  • US 7,706,266 B2
  • Filed: 03/12/2007
  • Issued: 04/27/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing, by an appliance, quality of service levels to transport layer data communications using a transparent proxy to control connection bandwidth, the method comprising:

  • (a) determining, by an appliance serving as a transparent proxy for a transport layer connection between a sender and a receiver, that a rate of transmission of the sender via the transport layer connection differs from a predetermined rate of transmission;

    (b) generating, by the appliance in response to the determination, an acknowledgement packet containing an indication to alter the rate of transmission; and

    (c) transmitting, by the appliance to the sender, the generated acknowledgement packet.

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