Patent ID: 7814176

Claim:
A system for satisfying a request from a client for a send-then-commit transaction, comprising: a front-end information management system (IMS) server; at least one shared message queue (SMQ); and plural back-end IMS servers connected to the front-end IMS server via the SMQ, the front-end IMS server receiving the request from the client and transmitting the request to the SMQ, at least one back-end IMS server accessing the SMQ and generating a transaction output in response to the request, the back-end IMS server transmitting the result to the front-end IMS server, the front-end IMS server interfacing with the client to communicate the response thereto, wherein the front-end IMS server causes the transaction to commit upon successful interfacing with the client to communicate the response thereto, otherwise the front-end IMS server causing the transaction to be backed out.