Usually means: Maintains connection, prevents automatic timeout.
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  3. Keepalive (disambiguation), Keepalive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (keepalive)

noun:  (electronics, communication) A short message sent by one device to another to check that the link between the two is operating, or to prevent this link from being broken due to inactivity.

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