Patent ID: 11948147
Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the availability of the acquirer processor server involves:
determining a number of first authorization requests received by the acquirer processor server over the first network communication channel; and
calculating a ratio of the number of first authorization requests received by the acquirer processor server to the number of first authorization requests,
when the ratio of the number of first authorization requests received by the acquirer processor server to the number of first authorization requests is less than a predetermined threshold value, determining the acquirer processor server to be unavailable; and
when the ratio of the number of first authorization requests received by the acquirer processor server to the number of first authorization requests is greater than a predetermined threshold value, determining the acquirer processor server to be available.