Patent ID: 8311051
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of managing request groups of a communications environment, said method comprising: obtaining a plurality of request groups, wherein the obtaining comprises decomposing, by a communications processor of the communications environment, multiple communications tasks into a plurality of requests for the multiple communications tasks and grouping, by the communications processor, the plurality of requests into the plurality of request groups, wherein one request group of the plurality of request groups comprises a set of requests of the plurality of requests, the set of requests being associated with one communications task of the multiple communications tasks; tracking, by hardware of the communications environment, a time-based dependency between at least multiple request groups of the plurality of request groups, the hardware being separate from the communications processor; and sending a response for a request group of the at least multiple request groups to the communications processor of the communications environment in an order indicated by the tracking, wherein the communications processor is alleviated from determining order of responses.