Patent ID: 11882058
Assignee: NEX SERVICES NORTH AMERICA LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a server comprising a memory for storing requests, received via a computer network from a plurality of client computers, which have not yet been matched with a complementary request, the server being configured to:
receive requests from any of the plurality of client computers;
match a received request with one or more of the stored requests complementary thereto and, based thereon, remove the one or more stored requests from the memory and store, in the memory, the received request when none of the stored requests are complementary thereto;
count, during a time interval subsequent to the match, subsequently received requests which are complementary to the removed one or more stored requests; and
output the counted number of received requests as an indication of activity in the system.