Patent ID: 7392282

Claim:
A method for ensuring client access to unpaired messages from a database management system (DBMS) server, comprising: the DBMS server determining that a transaction response message is in response to a communication disruption between a client and the DBMS server, the DBMS server storing the unpaired message in an unpaired message queue, the unpaired message corresponding to a specific client, the transaction response message associated with a transaction request; creating the unpaired message queue in a DBMS server separate from a paired message queue in response to determining a transaction response message is an unpaired message, the unpaired message queue configured to store a plurality of unpaired messages intended for the client, the unpaired message queue and paired message queue storing messages according to a First-In-First-Out protocol; and communicating transaction requests and transaction responses using an Open Transaction Manager Access (OTMA) protocol which allows the client to request at least one unpaired message stored in the unpaired message queue.