Patent ID: 7756951

Claim:
A data processing system having a plurality of application servers having adjustable processing power each connected to an integration server by a network, the system comprising: a first adapter in a transmission application server, said first adapter transmitting a first data from said transmission application server to said integration server, said first data having live data and information regarding an expected number of data packets to be transmitted to said integration server; an integration processing section in said integration server for determining a destination application server for processing said transmitted data and for transmitting said first data to said destination application server; a third application server having a third adapter for transmitting a second data from said third application server to said integration server, said second data having said live data and said information regarding said expected number of data packets to be transmitted to said integration server; and a second adapter in said destination application server that receives said live data and said information regarding said expected number of data packets from both said transmission application server and said third application server, wherein said destination application server dynamically adjusts its processing power in response to the information regarding said expected number of data packets received from said transmission application server and the information regarding said expected number of data packets received from said third application server and, wherein said processing rower is a number of cycles within a predetermined period of time.