Acknowledgment of acceptance of a request for bandwidth for a block transfer connection is delayed at the public network side of a boundary between a public network and a private destination network. As a result, each network element within the private destination network can either reject or reduce...http://www.google.com/patents/US20010012271?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20010012271 - IMPROVED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF BANDWIDTH REQUESTS FOR THE BLOCK TRANSFER OF DATA
