Patent 7565439 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on July, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
During iSCSI communication, according to the contents of commands issued by a host computer, the command response time is increased due to the influence of the TCP Delayed ACK. Thus, a command issued by the host computer is analyzed, the number of TCP/IP packets required for transmitting the data requested by this command is calculated, and a precedence packet is transmitted, so that no influence is experienced due to the Delayed ACK.