Patent ID: 7467387

Claim:
A method for responding to system status requests, the method comprising: periodically receiving, at a first computing processor operating on a first computing node, a computing task queue status for a computing task queue operating on a second computing node, the second computing node being different than the first computing node; storing, in response to the periodically receiving, the computing task queue status on the first computing node into a storage; communicating, from a requesting node operating on a requesting computing processor to an electrical data connection of the first computing processor operating on the first computing node, a system computing task queue status request for at least a portion of the computing task queue status for the computing task queue operating on the second computing node, the requesting node comprising the requesting computing processor that is different than the first computing processor; receiving, through the electrical data connection of the first computing node, the system computing task queue status request; retrieving, in response to the receiving, the at least a portion of the computing task queue status from the storage; sending, to the requesting node in response to receiving the system computing task queue status request, a computing task queue status response data message containing the at least a portion of the computing task queue status; transmitting, in response to the receiving the computing task queue status, the computing task queue status from the first computing node to a third computing node; storing the computing task queue status on the third computing node; receiving, at the third computing node, a second system task status request for at least a portion of the computing task queue status for the task queue operating on the second computing node; and responding to the system status request based on the computing task queue status stored on the third computing node.