Patent ID: 7949735

Claim:
A transaction process for the provisioning of rules in a network that includes a rule server and a server client, the rule server comprising at least a processor, the transaction process comprising: (a) transmission from the server to the client of a request for acceptance of the provisioning of a set of rules, where the client is attributed to a group of clients; (b) reservation by the client of the necessary resources for the reception and putting into application of the rules, if the request is accepted by the client; (c) response to the request, from the client to the server; and (d) provisioning of functional rules from the server to the client if the response in stage (c) is favorable and responses from other client in the group are favorable, wherein prior to the provisioning, the client checks whether the provisioning process comprising executing the functional rules will be executed correctly or not in the client, and the client transmits a response indicating that the provisioning process will be executed correctly, the client reserves resources necessary for reception and execution of the rules, wherein the favorable responses indicate that the provisioning can be implemented in a respective client and the responses are transmitted prior to the provisioning of the rules on the client by the server, and wherein stages (a), (b) and (c) are carried out for each of the clients in the group, each responding to the request from the server during stage (c), and in which provisioning stage (d) with respect to each client is carried out only if each client response is favorable, and wherein if the client provides the favorable response and one of other clients in the group does not provide a favorable response, the client is not provisioned, and wherein the network further comprises a rule manager that modifies one or more rules in the set of rules if one of the clients responds unfavorably and provides the modified set of rules to the server for transmission to the client.