Handling a delivery failure as a program exception in a distributed asynchronous architecture

US8516498B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Bimal Mehta · Sammamish, US
• Paul Maybee · Seattle, US
• Lee Graber · Kirkland, US
• Alexander Dadjomov · Redmond, US
• Jean-Emile Elien · Bellevue, US
• Eldar Musayev · Sammamish, US
• Johannes Klein · Redmond, US
• Sanjib Saha · Sammamish, US
• Kevin Bowen Smith · Sammamish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2003
• Grant date: Aug 20, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/087
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method of processing a message in an asynchronous architecture is provided. In the method, a determination is made that a response to a message sent by an instance of software code is to be received, where the response indicates whether the message succeeded or failed. Another determination is made as to whether the response has been received. If the response has not been received, the instance of the software code is stored in memory, thereby suspending the instance. The response is received, the instance resumed and the response is processed.