Patent ID: 9423976
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for retrieving and processing messages using a communication link with a first first-in-first-out (FIFO) storage, comprising: (a) retrieving a message from the first FIFO storage; (b) adding the retrieved message to a second FIFO storage if the retrieved message is not a reply message and not a notification message; (c) discarding the retrieved message if the retrieved message is a notification message, (d) processing the reply message before processing any other messages retrieved from the first FIFO storage, (e) processing the other retrieved messages in an order as received in the first FIFO storage, (f) repeating steps (a) to (c) until the reply message is retrieved (g) upon retrieving the reply message, and determining that the first FIFO storage is empty and the second FIFO storage contains at least one message, sending a notification message to the first FIFO storage; and (h) resuming retrieving and processing of the other messages after sending the notification message.