Patent ID: 8145658

Claim:
A method of processing a database query between one or more clients and one or more databases, the method comprising the steps of: receiving the database query from one of the clients, the database query formatted using a first protocol; setting a query timer to monitor the elapsed time from when the database query was received; selecting one of the databases to process the database query; translating the database query from the first protocol to a second protocol; sending the translated database query to the selected database for processing; receiving a response to the database query from the selected database, the response formatted using the second protocol; translating the response from the second protocol to the first protocol; determining which of the clients sent the database query; sending the translated response to the client that sent the database query; monitoring via the query timer, whether the translated response to the database query has been received during the elapsed time since the database query was received and waiting for the response via the query timer if the query timer has not expired; and turning off the query timer responsive to the translated response being received.