Patent ID: 8561084

Claim:
A method of performing message operations, comprising: receiving a message operation request identifying a queue, wherein, the queue includes a plurality of partitions, the request identifies the queue with an alias, and the alias having a subset of the plurality of partitions associated therewith, the plurality of partitions part of a client/server-based messaging system; retrieving a list of the subset of partitions associated with the alias received in the request; selecting at least one of the partitions within the retrieved subset; performing the message operation responsive to the selected at least one partition based on the alias associated therewith; deactivating at least one partition of the subset of partitions associated with the alias: diverting traffic from the at least one deactivated partition: and managing the alias associated with the at least one deactivated partition such that the alias no longer is associated with the at least one deactivated partition.