Patent ID: 7724757

Claim:
A system of managing request groups of a communications environment, said system comprising: means for obtaining a plurality of request groups; means for tracking, by hardware of the communications environment, a dependency between at least multiple request groups of the plurality of request groups; means for determining, based on the tracking, that a response for a request group of the plurality of request groups is to be sent to a communications processor of the communications environment; means for checking, in response to being able to send the response, whether there are one or more successor request groups of the request group; means for sending to the communications processor one or more responses for the one or more successor request groups, in response to the checking indicating there are one or more successor request groups; and wherein the means for determining comprises means for determining whether there are one or more request groups that precede the request group, and means for checking, in response to the determining indicating that one or more request groups precede the request group, whether one or more responses for the one or more request groups that precede the request group have been sent to the communications processor.