Patent ID: 7181525

Claim:
A method for communication between a plurality of clients and a server in a computer network, each of the plurality of clients having a rotation position, comprising the steps of: receiving, at the server, a first message from a first of the plurality of clients, the first message having a priority level, the first message requesting processing by the server; receiving, at the server, a second message from a second of the plurality of clients, the second message having a priority level, the second message requesting processing by the server; reading the priority level of the first message at the server; reading the priority level of the second message at the server; determining at the server the rotation position of the first of the plurality of clients; determining at the server the rotation position of the second of the plurality of clients; and processing the first message and the second message by: processing the first message before the second message when the priority level of the first message is higher than the priority level of the second message, and processing the first message before the second message when the first and second messages have the same priority level and the rotation position of the first client is before the rotation position of the second client.