Patent ID: 11909643
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A computer system, comprising:
a processor;
a storage device;
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, which when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
maintaining, in the storage device, a first tracker for all requests and a second tracker for a privileged group of requests, wherein a tracker is a buffer capable of tracking in-progress requests accepted by the tracker;
selecting a first group from a set of groups as the privileged group;
receiving a request from a requesting device;
determining that a request from a requesting device cannot be accepted into the first tracker;
determining whether the request belongs to the first group based on a header field of the request;
in response to the request belonging to the first group, selecting the request for accepting into the second tracker and performing a set of operations indicated in the request;
determining that a respective request belonging to the first group has been accepted; and

selecting a second group from the set of groups as the privileged group.