Patent ID: 9614939
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: transmitting, by one or more computing devices, one or more data messages externally over a network, the one or more data messages associated with a request and invoking a response message; transmitting, by the one or more computing devices, a timeout message internally from a transmit queue of the one or more computing devices, the timeout message corresponding to the one or more data messages and being intentionally delayed for a predetermined duration of time; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, at least one of the response message and the timeout message in a receive queue of the one or more computing devices; determining, by the one or more computing devices, which of the at least one response message or the timeout message is received first; and when the timeout message is received first, identifying, by the one or more computing devices, the request as having timed out.