Patent ID: 7043561
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for providing services, comprising: clients for issuing request messages, each of the request messages including a retry flag indicating whether the respective one of the request messages has been rejected and a retry identification; and a server receiving the request messages and processing or rejecting the request messages, said server including a reservation number, a service number, and means for checking whether said server is busy, wherein said server processes a respective one of the request messages if said server is not busy, said retry flag indicates that the respective one of the request messages has not been rejected, and said reservation number is identical to said service number, wherein said server processes a respective one of the request messages and increments said service number if said server is not busy, said retry flag indicates that the respective one of the request messages has been rejected, and said retry identification is identical to said service number, wherein said server rejects a respective one of the request messages and assigns the respective one of the request messages the retry identification that is identical to said reservation number and increments said reservation number if (a) said server is not busy, said retry flag indicates that the respective request message has not been rejected and said reservation number is different from said service number, or (b) said server is busy and said retry flag indicates that the respective request message has not been rejected, and wherein said server rejects a respective one of the request messages if (a) said server is not busy, said retry flag indicates that the respective request message has been rejected and said retry identification is different from said service number, or (b) said server is busy and said retry flag indicates that the respective request message has been rejected.