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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2012
Michael Bruce Kennedy, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Mark Magid, Monroe Township, NJ (US);
Mark Neal Ziebarth, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Michael Bruce Kennedy, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Mark Magid, Monroe Township, NJ (US);
Mark Neal Ziebarth, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A router receives a transaction message. The router determines whether the transaction message may include an affinity indicating a preference regarding processing of the transaction message. The transaction message may be modified to include an identification of a server system to process the modified transaction message based on the determination of the affinity. The router may route the modified transaction message to a coupling facility. A notification message may be received from the coupling facility, where the notification message requests a server associated with or including the router to send a bid to process the modified transaction message. The router may send the bid to process the modified transaction message to the coupling facility. An authorization message, to process the modified transaction message, may be received from the coupling facility based on a timestamp of the bid.