Business message tracking system using message queues and tracking queue for tracking transaction messages communicated between computers
US7454478B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 30, 2007 |
| Grant date | Nov 18, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 30, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/02
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A tracking system includes a business system using a plurality of application modules each including a computer for processing a transaction including a plurality of steps. A messaging system includes a messaging computer program embodied in a computer readable medium in each of the computers for communicating between the computers. The messaging system generates queues of messages being communicated between the computers. The messaging system can be configured by an administrator to generate tracking data about the messages being communicated between the computers. A tracking module is included in one of the computers, and has the messaging computer program and a tracking computer program embodied in the computer readable medium for specifying status data for retrieval from the messaging queues, receiving the status data from the messaging queues into a tracking queue, and storing the status data in a data storage system.
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