Patent ID: 7877313
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of failure recovery using an automatic failure recovery transaction, comprising: providing, using a computer processor, a network-based auction service, the network-based auction service having a forward-only process that prevents a roll-back to a process state at a time of a failure and allows forward-only screen prompts; providing, using the computer processor, a business information management system that contains product to be listed in auctions on the network-based auction service; providing, using the computer processor, an auction application separate from the network-based auction service, the auction application to integrate the network-based auction service and the business information management system and to provide the automatic failure recovery transaction for the forward-only process of the network-based auction service; defining, using the computer processor, a plurality of milestones in the automatic failure recovery transaction of the auction application, wherein each milestone is a point in the forward-only process that transaction state information is saved; providing, using the computer processor, by the network-based auction service, access to the forward-only process to a user; saving, using the computer processor, entries and responses made by the user, by the auction application, upon completion of each milestone as part of the transaction state information; after a failure occurs within the forward-only process of the network-based auction service, automatically, using the computer processor conducting a roll-back to a beginning of the forward-only process by the auction application; automatically inputting, using the computer processor, by the auction application, recorded entries and responses to the forward-only process in the network-based auction service to move the forward-only process forward from the beginning until a saved milestone in the forward-only process closest to the failure; resuming, using the computer processor the forward-only process in the network-based auction service from the saved milestone closest to the failure; resuming, using the computer processor, the forward only process in the network-based auction service from the saved milestone closest to failure, and providing, using the computer processor, access to the resumed forward-only process in the network-based auction service to the user.