Patent ID: 7634610

Claim:
A method of processing a plurality of data transactions, having a first data transaction, a second data transaction and a third data transaction, wherein the first data transaction and the third data transaction are of a first transaction type, the second data transaction is of a second transaction type, and wherein the first data transaction precedes the second data transaction and the second data transaction precedes the third data transaction, the method, comprising: assigning a first transaction clump tag to the first data transaction, wherein the first transaction clump tag comprises a second-transaction-type bit; assigning a second transaction clump tag to the second data transaction, wherein the second transaction clump tag comprises a second-transaction-type bit set to an inverse of the second-transaction-type bit of the first transaction clump tag; and assigning a third transaction clump tag to the third data transaction, wherein the third transaction clump tag comprises a second-transaction-type bit set to an inverse of the second-transaction type bit of the second transaction clump tag.