ELECTRICAL COMPUTER SYSTEM PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE

• US 20170257325A1
• Filed: 03/06/2017
• Published: 09/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nex Services North America, LLC (CME Group Incorporated), Next Services North America LLC
• Original Assignee: ICAP Services North America LLC (TP ICAP Plc)
• Inventors: Chauval, Jason, Freedlander, Christopher, Lyons, David J.
• Granted Patent: US 10,516,624 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/821 Prioritising resource allocation or reservation requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements

Abstract

An electrical computer system processing architecture for providing fairness amongst client computers of the computer system is disclosed. The electrical computer system processing architecture comprises a plurality of client computers connected to at least one server by a computer network. Each of the client computers is configured to provide requests to the at least one server. The or each server comprises a store for storing requests provided by the plurality of client computers. The or each server is configured to: match complementary requests from the plurality of client computers stored in the store; following matching of complementary requests, assign an indication of how well the requests have been met compared to requests of other client computers of the computer system; accumulate the indications to form an accumulation of indications; and when the accumulation exceeds a predetermined threshold, match future requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably with requests of other client computers of the computer system, thereby providing fairness amongst client computers of the computer system.

Claims

1. An electrical computer system processing architecture for providing fairness amongst client computers of the computer system, the electrical computer system processing architecture comprising:

a plurality of client computers being connected to at least one server by a computer network;

each of the client computers being configured to provide requests to the at least one server;

the or each server comprising a store for storing requests provided by the plurality of client computers, the or each server being configured to;

match complementary requests from the plurality of client computers stored in the store,

following matching of complementary requests, assign an indication of how well the requests have been met compared to requests of other client computers of the computer system;

accumulate the indications to form an accumulation of indications; and

when the accumulation exceeds a predetermined threshold, match future requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably with requests of other client computers of the computer system,

thereby providing fairness amongst client computers of the computer system.

2. An electrical computer system processing architecture according to claim 1, wherein the requests are provided in XML format.

3. An electrical computer system processing architecture according to claim 1, wherein complementary requests are matched by time priority provided by the plurality of client computers.

4. An electrical computer system processing architecture according to claim 1, wherein the or each server is further configured to not match requests in favour of the client whose requests have not been met as favourably once the predetermined threshold is no longer exceeded.

5. A server forming part of an electrical computer system processing architecture, the server for providing fairness amongst client computers using the server, the server comprising:

a store for storing requests provided by a plurality of client computers, the server being configured to;

match complementary requests from the plurality of client computers stored in the store,

following matching of complementary requests, assign an indication of how well the requests have been met compared to requests of other client computers using the server;

accumulate the indications to form an accumulation of indications; and

when the accumulation exceeds a predetermined threshold, match future requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably with requests of other client computers using the server, thereby providing fairness amongst client computers using the server.

6. A server according to claim 5, wherein the requests are provided in XML format.

7. A server according to claim 5, wherein complementary requests are matched by time priority provided by the plurality of client computers.

8. A server according to claim 5, wherein the server is further configured to not match requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably once the predetermined threshold is no longer exceeded.

9. A computerized method for providing fairness amongst client computers of a computer system, the computerized method comprising:

a server of the computer system receiving requests from a plurality of client computers connected to the server by a computer network;

the server storing the requests provided by the plurality of client computers;

the server matching complementary requests from the plurality of client computers stored in the store,

following matching of complementary requests, the server assigning an indication of how well the requests have been met compared to requests of other client computers of the computer system;

accumulating the indications to form an accumulation of indications; and

when the accumulation exceeds a predetermined threshold, matching future requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably with requests of other client computers of the computer system, thereby providing fairness amongst client computers of the computer system.

10. A computerized method according to claim 9, wherein the requests are provided in XML format.

11. A computerized method according to claim 9, wherein the server matching complementary requests comprises the server matching complementary requests by time priority provided by the plurality of client computers.

12. A computerized method according to claim 9, wherein the server not matching requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably once the predetermined threshold is no longer exceeded.

13. A computer readable medium comprising instructions for carrying a method on a server for providing fairness amongst client computers using the server, the computerized method comprising:

receiving requests from a plurality of client computers connected to the server by a computer network;

storing the requests provided by the plurality of client computers;

matching complementary requests from the plurality of client computers stored in the store,

following matching of complementary requests, assigning an indication of how well the requests have been met compared to requests of other client computers of the computer system;

accumulating the indications to form an accumulation of indications; and

when the accumulation exceeds a predetermined threshold, matching future requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably with requests of other client computers using the server, thereby providing fairness amongst client computers using the server.

14. A computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the requests are provided in XML format.

15. A computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the matching complementary requests comprises matching complementary requests by time priority provided by the plurality of client computers.

16. A computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the method further comprises not matching requests in favour of the client computer whose requests have not been met as favourably once the predetermined threshold is no longer exceeded.