Patent ID: 8903891

Claim:
An apparatus including a processing node, the processing node comprising: a data reception module to receive a first service request for data from a user application executing on at least one first machine; and a communications module to communicate with the data reception module, the communications module being implemented by one or more hardware processors and being configured to synchronously transmit a first response including a service request identification to the user application in reply to the first service request and to dispatch the first service request as an additional request to an application layer executing on at least one second machine, to poll, based on the service request identification, the application layer for a second response to the additional request, responsive to dispatching the additional request to the application layer, to receive the second response to the additional request, and to store the second response in a data structure in conjunction with the service request identification, to notify the user application that the second response including the data is available for consumption, and to receive a second service request from the user application, along with the service request identification, to access the second response from the data structure based on the service request identification received with the second service request, and to synchronously transmit the second response to the user application in reply to the second service request.