Patent ID: 8463627

Claim:
A method of processing requests, the method comprising: receiving at a computer system configured to process requests a plurality of requests for tickets to an event; automatically queuing the plurality of requests in a first queue, wherein the first queue is stored in computer readable memory; associating a first subset of tickets to the event with a first request submitted by a client system, from the plurality of requests in the first queue; determining via the computer system whether to reassign the first subset of tickets at least partly in response: to determining that the client system is transmitting messages at greater than a first frequency during a first period or to determining that the first request, to which the first subset of tickets has been associated, has been abandoned, wherein the abandonment determination is based at least in part on determining that the client system has ceased transmitting messages during the first period; at least partly in response to determining that the first subset of tickets is to be reassigned, from at least a portion of the plurality of requests queued in the first queue, identifying a queued second request via the computer system, wherein the second request is similar to the first request; associating via the computer system the second request with the first subset of tickets to the event associated with the first request; transmitting over a network to an issuer of the second request a notification related to the association of the second request with the first subset of tickets to the event, wherein the sale of the first set of tickets to the issue of the second request is completed; and associating a third request in the first queue with a second subset of tickets for the event.