Patent ID: 8849831

Claim:
A method for associating a response message and a query message in a database network system comprising a server system and a database system, said server system comprising one or more computers and a query archive, said server system in network communications with said database system, said database system separate from said server system; said query archive organized in accordance with a storage index, said storage index having a unique corresponding storage index value associated with each query in said query archive, each said corresponding storage index value indicating a location for each said query in said query archive; said method comprising: said server system assigning a first corresponding storage index value to a first query message; said server system storing said first query message in said query archive in accordance with said first corresponding storage index value; said server system mapping said first corresponding storage index value to a control variable utilizing alphabetic characters and numeric characters and employing a representation capable of a greater size than achievable using numeric characters alone; said control variable limited to a length of 10 characters or less and limited to a character set consisting of upper case alphabetic characters, numeric characters and a dash character; said server system sending said first query message and said control variable to said database system; said server system receiving a first response message generated by said database system in response to said first query message, said first response message including said control variable; said server system converting said control variable to a recovered index value, said recovered index value being equal to said first corresponding storage index value; said server system retrieving said query message from said query archive in accordance with said recovered index value; and said server system associating said first response message with said first query message.