Interactive data processor controlled display interface for tracking of allocated messages in a dynamic workload balancing communication system

• US 7,143,128 B1
• Filed: 06/08/2000
• Issued: 11/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bhogal, Kulvir Singh, Ishmael, Nizamudeen Jr., Sidhu, Mandeep Singh, Baweja, Baljeet Singh
• Primary Examiner(s): Follansbee, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATEL, HARESH N
• Application Number:
  US09/589,799
• Time in Patent Office: 2,364 Days
• Field of Search: 345/326, 345/530, 395/500, 395/609, 395/675, 370/17, 709/105, 709/104, 709200-203, 709217-228, 718100-105, 719310-318
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals

Abstract

Tracking and displaying of allocated messages in dynamic workload balancing systems in message driven transaction environments which involve distributing data processing transactions into messages and dynamically allocating each of the messages to different computer systems for performance, comprising enabling a user to request the performance of a data processing transaction, dynamically transforming via a server computer any requested transactions into messages free of user input and then allocating the messages to different computer systems. The system has user interactive displays for displaying the allocated messages and associated computer systems when required by the user so that he may track the messages.

Claims

1. A workload balancing system for distributing data processing transactions into a plurality of messages and for dynamically allocating each of said plurality of messages to different computer systems for performance comprising:

means for requesting the performance of a data processing transaction;

a server computer for said distributing said transaction into messages and dynamically allocating said messages to said different computer systems; and

a server queue associated with said server computer for storing said messages from the distributed transaction; and

user interactive display means for interactively displaying said server queue of the allocated messages and associated said different computer systems.

2. The workload balancing system of claim 1 wherein each of said different computer systems has an associated queue for storing messages allocated to each respective computer system.

3. The workload balancing system of claim 2 wherein at least one of said different computer systems has means for reallocating to other computer systems, messages initially allocated to said one computer system.

4. The workload balancing system of claim 3 further including user interactive means for displaying said reallocated messages and computer systems to which said messages are reallocated.

5. The workload balancing system of claim 1 further comprising an interactive display computer including said means for requesting the performance of a data processing transaction and user interactive display means for displaying said allocated messages and associated computer systems.

6. A method for distributing data processing transactions into a plurality of messages and for dynamically allocating each of said plurality of messages to different computer systems for performance comprising:

requesting the performance of a data processing transaction;

distributing said transaction into messages and dynamically allocating said messages to said different computer systems by a server computer; and

storing said messages from the distributed transaction in a server queue associated with said server computer; and

interactively displaying said server queue of the allocated messages and said different computer systems.

7. The method of claim 6 including the step of storing messages allocated to each respective computer system in a queue associated with said computer system.

8. The method of claim 7 further including the step of reallocating to other computer systems, messages initially allocated to one of said different computer systems.

9. The method of claim 8 further including the step of user interactively displaying said reallocated messages and computer systems to which said messages are reallocated.

10. A computer storage medium having a computer program program code for workload balancing of distributed data processing transactions into a plurality of messages and to dynamically allocate each of said plurality of messages to different computer systems for performance, comprising:

means for requesting the performance of a data processing transaction;

means for said distributing said transaction into messages and dynamically allocating said messages to said different computer systems;

server queue means for storing said messages from the distributed transaction; and

server queue means for storing said messages from the distributed transaction; and

user interactive display means for interactively displaying said server queue of the allocated messages and associated said different computer systems.

11. The computer storage medium of claim 10 wherein each of said different computer systems has an associated queue for storing messages allocated to each respective computer system.

12. The computer storage medium of claim 11 further including means for reallocating to other computer systems, messages initially allocated to said one computer system.

13. The computer storage medium of claim 12 further including user interactive means for displaying said reallocated messages and computer systems to which said messages are reallocated.

14. The computer storage medium of claim 10 wherein said means for requesting the performance of a data processing transaction and said user interactive display means for displaying said allocated messages and computer systems are in a user interactive display computer.