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US 7,096,262 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for asymmetric electronic commerce transactions
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorGarry C. Binder
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Abstract
A networked computing apparatus having a business message sender component coupled to a network interface, the network interface not being coupled to an always-active listening component; and a processing component coupled to the sender component to process a business message or a polling request for transfer to another networked computing apparatus is disclosed.
Claims27
An asymmetric e-commerce transaction method, comprising:
- sending a business message to a server, the business message having additional data attached;
- receiving a response from the server confirming the business message was received;
- sending a polling request to the server;
- receiving a second response from the server confirming the polling request was received, the second response further including a first receipt acknowledgement of a result of processing the business message and indicating a message queue associated with the server is not empty;
- sending a second polling request to the server in response to the indication the message queue is not empty;
- receiving a third response from the server including a second business message including the result of processing the business message, the third response indicating the message queue is empty;
- storing the second business message;
- and
- sending a second receipt acknowledgement including a result of processing the second business message to the server.
6 more elements
An asymmetric e-commerce transaction method, comprising:
- receiving a business message from a client, the business message having additional data attached, the data being moved to a data store for subsequent processing;
- sending a response to the client confirming the business message was received;
- receiving a polling request from the client;
- sending a second response to the client confirming the polling request was received, the second response including a first receipt acknowledgement of a result of processing the business message and further indicating an associated message queue is not empty;
- receiving a second polling request from the client in response to the indication the message queue is not empty;
- sending a third response to the client including a second business message including the result of processing the business message, the third response indicating the message queue is empty;
- and
- receiving a second receipt acknowledgement including a result of processing the second business message from the client.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.