| CPC H04L 1/0018 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0002 (2013.01); H04L 1/1809 (2013.01); H04L 1/1874 (2013.01); H04L 1/188 (2013.01); H04L 1/1887 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.05); H04L 47/10 (2013.01); H04L 47/193 (2013.01); H04L 47/20 (2013.01); H04L 47/28 (2013.01); H04L 47/283 (2013.01); H04L 47/37 (2013.01); H04L 69/161 (2013.01); H04L 69/162 (2013.01); H04L 69/163 (2013.01); H04L 47/43 (2022.05); H04L 69/16 (2013.01); Y02D 30/50 (2020.08)] |

| AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
| The patentability of claims 1-15 is confirmed. |
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1. A method of transferring data from a sender to a receiver in a communication network, the method comprising:
establishing a connection between the sender and the receiver:
measuring round trip times of data packets sent from the sender to the receiver;
determining a congestion window parameter that specifies a maximum number of unacknowledged data packets that may be sent to the receiver; and
transmitting additional data packets to the receiver in response to expiration of a transmit timer, the period of the transmit timer based on the round trip time measurements and the congestion window parameter.
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