Patent ID: 7593947

Claim:
A method for processing a multiplicity of data update requests made by a customer, said method comprising the steps of: grouping all of said data update requests which is followed by updating of the corresponding data into a predetermined plurality of blocks for execution by a data processor, the data update requests within each of said blocks and from one of said blocks to a next one of said blocks being arranged in an order that said data update requests need to be executed to yield a proper data result, each of said blocks having approximately a same capacity for said data update requests, said capacity corresponding to a number of said data update requests which said data processor is adapted to efficiently process in order before processing said data update requests in the next one of said blocks; and then said data processor processing said data update requests within said one block in said order, and then said data processor processing said data update requests within said next block in said order; wherein the processing the multiplicity of data update requests is performed only for the data update requests.