Patent ID: 7356722

Claim:
A rates balancing method for balancing effective data exchange rates for purpose of continuous sustainability between an independently-clocked job requestor and an independently-clocked, job processor, where the job requestor sends to the job processor, requests for respective processings of job payloads which are supplied from the job requestor to the job processor, and where in response to at least some of said sent requests, the job processor sends to the job requestor corresponding indications of request grants, where the job processor exhibits an average grant-issuing rate, where the job requestor exhibits a request-issuing rate, said rates balancing method being machine implemented and comprising: (a) statically constraining the average grant-issuing rate of the job processor to be no greater than a sustainable average grant-receiving rate which is continuously sustainable by the job requestor; and (b) dynamically constraining the request-issuing rate of the job requestor to be no greater than a sustainable average request-receiving rate which is continuously sustainable by the job processor.