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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael D. Brooks, Alan Hollingshead, Julian Horn, Philip I. Wakelin
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A transaction processing server and associated clients which send requests to the server via client-server connections. The server has a transaction processing region operable to process requests and issue responses to the requesting client. The server maintains a record of historical processing times taken to process recent client requests. The server has a connection manager that is operable to monitor incoming client requests and extract from them a goal response time, which is a maximum time within which the client expects the request to be processed which is included in each request. The server accepts or rejects each incoming client request based on deciding whether it is likely to be processed within the goal response time. If a request is rejected, the server transmits a rejection message to the originating client.
A method of managing client connections to a transaction processing server, the method being performed by the server and comprising:
A computer program product, comprising:
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