Patent 7656799 was granted and assigned to Citrix Systems on February, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a sender and/or receiver or may be deployed into a network as a separate device without requiring significant additional resources.