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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tsai-Yang Jea, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Serban C. Maerean, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Ilie G. Tanase, Somers, NY (US);
Hanhong Xue, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Acknowledging incoming messages, including: determining, by an acknowledgement dispatching module, whether an incoming message has been received in an active message queue; responsive to determining that the incoming message has been received in the active message queue, resetting, by the acknowledgement dispatching module, an acknowledgment iteration counter; incrementing, by the acknowledgement dispatching module, the acknowledgment iteration counter; determining, by the acknowledgement dispatching module, whether the acknowledgment iteration counter has reached a predetermined threshold; and responsive to determining that the acknowledgment iteration counter has reached the predetermined threshold, processing, by the acknowledgement dispatching module, all messages in the active message queue.