Patent ID: 7991847

Claim:
A method of ordering a plurality of messages received from a sender to be sent to a receiver in a sequence based on the dependency of one message on one or more other messages, the method comprising the steps of: receiving one or more messages from a stream of messages; generating one or more messages from the stream of messages and determining an order, a target and a value for a status field for each of the generated messages; storing the generated messages in a database; identifying a characteristic (P-Key-Order) of each message which is common to a group of the stored messages; identifying a message dependency for the stored messages in the group of messages from a parameter of the message; reviewing a particular stored message in the database to determine if the stored message can be sent by: determining whether the stored message is dependent on a previous message and determining a status of the previous message by reading a value of the status field of the previous message; and updating the value of the status field of the stored message based on the status of the previous message; and sending the stored message after acknowledgement that the previous message has been sent.