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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
May. 27, 2009
Jon Hawkes, Winchester, GB;
Simon J. Maple, Basingstoke, GB;
Daniel J. Matthews, Southampton, GB;
Ian Robinson, Southampton, GB;
Andrew Wilkinson, Southampton, GB;
Jon Hawkes, Winchester, GB;
Simon J. Maple, Basingstoke, GB;
Daniel J. Matthews, Southampton, GB;
Ian Robinson, Southampton, GB;
Andrew Wilkinson, Southampton, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a mechanism for a transaction coordinator to indicate to a transaction participant that it supports a heuristic outcome, where a course of action has occurred which means that the transaction participant is unable to honor a transactional prior commitment to the transaction coordinator. The mechanism is such that a transaction participant that is incapable of communicating a heuristic outcome may ignore any such indication. A transaction participant may be incapable because it does not understand the concept of a heuristic outcome at all or because it does not have the ability to inform the transaction coordinator that a heuristic outcome has occurred.