Patent ID: 7788330

Claim:
A method for processing operational data associated with transmissions in a data communication system to obtain information pertaining to said transmissions, said method comprising: enabling access to a server in said data communication system, wherein all transmissions in said data communication system pass through said server; obtaining operational data associated with each of a plurality of transmissions as said transmissions pass through said server and forwarding that operational data to a master service in a distributed system comprising a plurality of processor services, wherein said master service has been assigned from one of said plurality of processor services based upon availability, wherein any available one of said plurality of processor services can be assigned as said master service, said master service for distributing said data amongst the others of said plurality of processor services for processing said data; said master service routing said data to respective ones of said others of said plurality of processor services according to availability of said others of said plurality of processor services; each of said respective ones of said others of said plurality of processor services processing, in parallel, respective data routed thereto in a predetermined manner until said processing has been completed, to obtain said information pertaining to said transmissions, and to generate one or more result lists containing said information; merging said one or more result lists with other corresponding result lists generated by the others of the respective ones of said others of said plurality of processor services to generate one or more merged result lists; and storing said one or more merged result lists for later analysis.