Patent ID: 8276158
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer system for bounding storage space in response based messaging, the computer system comprising: a message source wherein the message source includes a source persistent memory; a message destination wherein the destination includes a destination persistent memory; a machine capable of executing instructions embodied as software; and a plurality of software portions, wherein one of said software portions is configured to store, at the source persistent memory, a message; one of said software portions is configured to send the message from the source to the destination wherein the message includes a first identifier and a second identifier, and wherein the first identifier is associated with the message being sent by the message source and the second identifier is associated with an acknowledgement expected by the message source from the message destination; responsive to receiving at the message destination the message, one of said software portions is configured to store, at the destination persistent memory, a response to the message; one of said software portions is configured to send to the message source an acknowledgment of receipt of the message at the message destination; one of said software portions is configured to delete the message stored at the source persistent memory associated with the first identifier responsive to receiving acknowledgment of receipt from the message destination; and one of said software portions is configured to delete at the destination persistent memory responses to messages associated with identifiers prior to the second identifier.