Patent ID: 7058853
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A highly available transaction processing system comprising: a primary transaction processing site that includes hardware and software components for processing transactions on behalf of client computers; a standby transaction processing site that includes hardware and software components for processing transactions on behalf of client computers and that is continuously updated with data to reflect the data state of the primary transaction processing site; and and management components and services that map software and hardware components of the primary transaction processing site and the standby transaction processing site to a set of transaction-processing services, that monitor the primary site for software and hardware errors, that determine when sufficient software and hardware components have failed to prevent one or more services from being provided to clients from the primary transaction processing site, and that fail over the primary site to the standby site in order to continue transaction processing at the remote site when a service failure that prevents continued transaction processing is detected on the primary site.