Patent ID: 8898078

Claim:
A method, implemented at a computing system that includes one or more processors, for handling a plurality of events, the method comprising: an act of the computing system receiving a plurality of events in the form of event messages, each of at least some of the events affecting one or more of a plurality of accounts; an act of the computing system using the one or more processors to partition each of the plurality of events into a corresponding one of a plurality of channels, such that each of the plurality of channels receives a subset of the plurality of events, at least a particular one of the plurality of channels being configured to: de-duplicate events by: identifying any duplicate events within the corresponding subset of the plurality of events that are received at the particular channel based on a first de-duplication scheme that includes checking first event data; and discarding any identified duplicate events, such that the corresponding subset of the plurality of events is a subset of original events only; and dispatch each original event in the subset of original events to a corresponding aggregator; and an act of the corresponding aggregator processing the events received from the particular channel, including: performing an additional de-duplicating of the events received from the particular channel to remove any duplicate events introduced during the dispatch, the additional de-duplicating being performed with a different de-duplication scheme than the first de-duplication scheme and which checks different event data than the first event data that is checked in the first de-duplication scheme; and aggregating the events received from the particular channel.