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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Malcolm D. Ayres, Romsey, GB;

Andrew I. Hickson, Hants, GB;

Andrew M. Leonard, Hampshire, GB;

David Ware, Wiltshire, GB;

Andrew J. Whitfield, Southampton, GB;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/546 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method for administering messages. In response to a determination that one or more consuming applications have failed to process the same message on a queue a predetermined number of times, the message is made unavailable to consuming applications. Responsive to determining that a predetermined number of messages have been made unavailable to consuming applications, one or more consuming applications are prevented from consuming messages from the queue.


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