Patent ID: 7937503

Claim:
A computer hardware system for maintaining a limit value of a resource, comprising: a plurality of request handlers including a first request handler having an associated first sub-limit value, and a second request handler having an associated second sub-limit value; and a distributor configured to distribute a received resource request to one of the plurality of request handlers, wherein each request handler of the plurality of request handlers is configured to receive the resource request, check a request value of the resource request, received from the request distributor, against a sub-limit value associated with the request handler, transmit, upon a determination that the request handler cannot satisfy the resource request, an outgoing coordination request to a different request handler, the coordination request including a coordination request value needed to satisfy the resource request, receive an incoming coordination request from a different request handler, and update the submit-limit value associated with the request handler based upon either the outgoing coordination request or the incoming coordination request, and the sum of sub-limit values of the plurality of request handlers equaling the limit value of the resource.