Method and system for a failure recovery framework for interfacing with network-based auctions

• US 20060004649A1
• Filed: 01/03/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Singh, Narinder
• Granted Patent: US 7,877,313 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A method of failure recovery is provided that includes providing an automatic failure recovery transaction in an auction application interacting with a network-based auction service. The network-based auction service has a forward-only process that is adapted to prevent roll-back to a process state at a time of a failure. If the failure occurs within the forward-only process, the method includes automatically conducting a roll-back to a beginning of the forward-only process by the auction application. A computer readable medium is provided that includes instructions adapted to execute a method for failure recovery.

Claims

1. A method of failure recovery, comprising:

providing an automatic failure recovery transaction in an auction application interacting with a network-based auction service, the network-based auction service having a forward-only process that is adapted to prevent roll-back to a process state at a time of a failure; and

if the failure occurs within the forward-only process, automatically conducting a roll-back to a beginning of the forward-only process by the auction application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one roll-back period corresponds to a defined discrete process transaction through an auction process.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one roll-back period comprises at least one of a reservation creation, a publishing operation, a receiving of a winner notification, a linking of a winner information to a backend, and an order creation operation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the auction application interacts with a backend business information system.

5. A computer readable medium including instructions adapted to execute a method for failure recovery, the method comprising:

providing an automatic failure recovery transaction in an auction application interacting with a network-based auction service, the network-based auction service having a forward-only process that is adapted to prevent roll-back to a process state at a time of a failure; and

if the failure occurs within the forward-only process, automatically conducting a roll-back to a beginning of the forward-only process by the auction application.