International Business Machines Corporation

William L Yates

Brad Roeger

Giacomo Giuseppe Chiarella

Jade Monique Carino

James Edward Davies

Esther Roeger

Lewis Haydn James

A method, system, and computer program product are configured to: initiate a transaction in response to receiving a readiness probe request from a requesting system; set a probe flag for the transaction to a first state; send the transaction to a user application for processing; based on the probe flag being set to the first state, keep updates to recoverable resources in-flight while the user application is processing the transaction; based on the probe flag being set to the first state, roll back the updates to the recoverable resources in response to the user application ending processing the transaction; and send a readiness probe response to the requesting system based on how the user application ended processing the transaction.

Transactional readiness probe

A data processing system includes a processor and a local storage device connected to the processor. The data processing system is operated to identify one or more downloads for downloading to the local storage device. The system determines the amount of available space within the local storage device, selects a download from the identified download(s) that is smaller than the amount of available space within the local storage device, and downloads the selected download to the data processing system. The selected download is then stored in the local storage device, whilst not marking the space occupied by the selected download as being used.

Data processing system using pre-emptive downloading

Methods are disclosed for a digital escrow service for an electronic transfer, where the transfer is completed based on the geographic location of the sender or receiver. The method includes obtaining information representative of a geographic area, initiating an electronic transfer, determining whether or not at least one of the sender and the receiver is located within the geographic area and executing the electronic transfer based on whether it is determined that at least one of the sender and receiver is located within the geographic area. As an enhancement, the method may include processing a transaction between a plurality of senders and a receiver.

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William L Yates