Patent ID: 6480897
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An article of manufacture comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for flow-controlling a plurality of messages from a source node into a destination node in a message processing system, the plurality of messages including a first message comprising a data portion, the computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture comprising:code means for the source node transmitting (102) the data portion of the first message, and related control information, to the destination node; code means for, in response to the destination node receiving but being unable to retain, due to conditions therein, the data portion of the first message, the destination node discarding the data portion of the first message; and code means for, in response to the destination node thereafter being able to retain, due to changed conditions therein, the data portion of the first message, the destination node initiating a retransmission (110) of the data portion of the first message from the source node using said related control information.