System and method for linearly managing client-server communication

A system comprising:

• an interactive multimedia client system communicatively coupled with and interactive multimedia server system, the interactive multimedia client system including a memory and a data processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the interactive multimedia client system is configured to perform operations including:
• invoking a first method of a plurality of methods, wherein the plurality of methods correspond to a plurality of sequential action requests and the first method represents an abstraction of a first corresponding plurality of sequential action requests;
• invoking a second method as including a second corresponding plurality of sequential action requests;
• transmitting, to the interactive multimedia server system in response to invoking the first method, the first corresponding plurality of sequential action requests;
• and
• transmitting, to the interactive multimedia server system in response to invoking the second method, at least one sequential action request of the second corresponding plurality of sequential action requests before receiving, from the interactive multimedia server system, messages in response to all of the sequential action requests of the first corresponding plurality of sequential action requests.

A computer system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a data processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to perform operations including:
• interpreting a first method as including a first plurality of sequential action requests to an interactive multimedia server system;
• transmitting, to the interactive multimedia server system in response to interpreting the first method as including the first plurality of sequential action requests, a particular sequential action request of the first plurality of sequential action requests prior to receiving a message in response to a prior sequential action request, of the first plurality of sequential action requests, transmitted from the interactive multimedia client system to the interactive multimedia server system, wherein the prior sequential action request is transmitted before transmitting the particular sequential action request;
• interpreting a second method as including a second plurality of sequential action requests to the interactive multimedia server system;
• before messages in response to all of the sequential action requests in the first plurality of sequential action requests have been received from the interactive multimedia server system, transmitting to the interactive multimedia server system, in response to interpreting the second method as including the second plurality of sequential action requests, at least one of the sequential action requests of the second plurality of sequential action requests;
• and
• transmitting at least one sequential action request of the second plurality of sequential action requests prior to receiving a message in response to a previously transmitted sequential action request of the second plurality of sequential action requests.