TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20130219396A1
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ent Services Development Corporation LP (DXC Technology Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Kasravi, Kas, Jackson, Philip C. Jr., Rappold, Robert J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,286,112 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/101
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/466 Transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor

Abstract

According to one example of the present invention, there is provided a transaction processing system. The transaction processing system comprises a transaction analyzer for determining characteristics of a received transaction, a processing agent selector for selecting, based on the determined characteristics, a processing agent for processing the received transaction, and a dispatcher for dispatching the received transaction and the selected processing agent to a processing resource to cause the transaction to be processed in accordance with the selected processing agent on at least one of the computing devices.

Claims

1. A transaction processing system comprising:

a transaction analyzer to determine characteristics of a received transaction;

a processing agent selector to select, based on the determined characteristics, a processing agent for processing the received transaction;

a dispatcher to dispatch the received transaction and the selected processing agent to a processing resource to cause the transaction to be processed in accordance with the selected processing agent on at least one computing devices.

2. The transaction processing system of claim 1, wherein the processing agent selector is to select, based on the determined characteristics, a processing agent from a library of predetermined processing agents.

3. The transaction processing system of claim 1, wherein the processing agent selector is to create a processing agent by selecting and combining, based on the determined transaction characteristics, one or more processing agent elements from a library of predetermined processing agent elements.

4. The transaction processing system of claim 1, wherein the processing agent selector is to modify a predetermined processing agent in accordance with the determined transaction characteristics.

5. The transaction processing system of claim 3, wherein the processing agent selector is further to store a created or modified processing agent in the library of predetermined processing agents.

6. The transaction processing system of claim 1, further comprising:

a data store to store a copy of each dispatched transaction and a transaction log for obtaining the processing status of each dispatched transaction;

and a transaction tracker to dispatch a copied transaction when it is determined that the corresponding dispatched transaction has not completed within a predetermined time period.

7. The transaction processing system of claim 6, wherein the transaction tracker is further configured to dispatch a copied transaction to a different processing resource.

8. The transaction processing system of claim 7, wherein the transaction tracker is further to delete from the data store the copy of a dispatched transaction for which it is determined that the corresponding dispatched transaction has completed successfully.

9. The transaction processing system of claim 1, further comprising a set of enterprise processing resources and wherein the processing resource is determined to have a processing resource characteristic below a predetermined threshold level and is selected based on the determination.

10. The transaction processing system of claim 1, wherein transactions are received from a set of client computing devices, and wherein a set of processing resources for the transactions are on a secure network.

11. A method of processing a transaction using a set of processing resources, comprising;

receiving a transaction to be processed;

determining, based on characteristics of the received transaction, a processing agent for processing the transaction;

combining the determined processing agent and the received transaction; and

sending the combined processing agent and transaction to one of a set of processing resources to cause the processing agent to process the transaction on at least one of the computing devices.

12. The method of claim 11, further wherein determining a processing agent further comprises:

determining the characteristics of the received transaction; and

selecting a processing agent to process the transaction, based on the determined characteristics, from at least one of;

a set of predetermined processing agents; and

a set of predetermined processing agent elements.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein sending the combined processing agent and transaction to a processing resource further comprises:

determining characteristics of at least some of the set of processing resources; and

sending the combined processing agent and transaction to a processing resource having a determined characteristic below a predetermined threshold level.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein sending further comprises sending the combined processing agent and transaction to a processing resource having a processing load below a predetermined threshold.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that are executable by a processor to:

receive a transaction for processing;

analyze the received transaction to determine characteristics thereof;

select, based on determined characteristics, a processing agent for processing the transaction; and

send the selected processing agent and received transaction to a processing resource to cause the processing agent to be executed on the processing resource to process the transaction.