Patent ID: 11949600
Assignee: CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 20:
21. A system comprising:
means for receiving, from a computing system coupled via a computer network coupled therebetween, a data message generated based on an event by the computing system for transmission to a recipient;
means for determining that a rate of receipt at which data messages from the computing system can be received exceeds a rate at which messages can be transmitted to the recipient thereby causing received messages to be stored in a memory to await transmission, the memory storing data messages awaiting transmission in an order in accordance with an order of receipt;
means for determining, based on the determination that the rate of receipt exceeds the rate of transmission, that the received data message is related to a previously received, but not yet transmitted, data message stored in the memory;
means for storing, in the memory in place of the previously received data message, one of an aggregation of the previously received data message with the received data message or the received data message; and
means for transmitting any data messages stored in the memory to the message recipient in the order in which they are stored upon a determination that data messages are able to be transmitted.