BPM - Issue on Deadline branch on a Block

Hello,
I have designed a BPM to access to an Inbound Proxy. I have put the call to the Proxy on a Block, and I have added the deadline and the exception branches.
The exception branch runs ok, but the deadline branch not. I have put a infine loop on the proxy to the process goes to the deadline branch, but the process goes to the exception branch after a minute, and I have put the deadline branch on 2 minutes.
Is this normal? Hou can I get that the process goes to the deadline exception?
Thanks and regards,
Manuel.

One more way is to send a "stop collection" message from a proxy, chk this link
/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/05/22/schedule-your-bpm
you ve to customize what Maranani describes so that the message is a "stop" rather than a "start" , hope it helps

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can we use 2 control steps in deadline branch first control step to cancel the process and 2nd control step to send an
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