Patent ID: 7213071

Claim:
A method of providing improved quality of service over a series of messages exchanged between computers in a networking environment that are related to a transaction, comprising: determining one or more transactional quality of service (“TQoS”) values to be applied to the related messages; using the determined TQoS values when transmitting at least one of the related messages from a server computer to a client computer as a response message related to a request message from the client computer; annotating a routing token of the response message with information reflecting the determined TQoS values; transmitting the response message with the annotated routing token with the information reflecting the determined TQoS values from the server computer to the client computer; receiving the response message transmitted with the annotated routing token-at the client computer; and transmitting the TQoS values obtained from the annotated routing token from the client computer to the server computer with subsequent request messages which are each related to the response message from the server.