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

Claim 15:
16. A computer implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a server, requests from any of the plurality of client computers, the 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;
matching a received request with one or more of the stored requests complementary thereto and, based thereon, removing the one or more stored requests from the memory and storing, in the memory, the received request when none of the stored requests are complementary thereto;
counting, during a time interval subsequent to the match, subsequently received requests which are complementary to the removed one or more stored requests; and
outputting the counted number of received requests as an indication of activity in the system.