Method and apparatus for conducting a transaction between transaction processing systems

• US 7,941,532 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2009
• Issued: 05/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Tsumura, Masahiro, Ookura, Kouichi, Ikenaga, Eri
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Quang N.
• Application Number:
  US12/542,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307301A1
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/220, 709/224, 705/39, 705/45, 705/60
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/401 Transaction verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

When investigating a failure occurring in a transaction between information processing apparatuses, it is possible to reduce the time required for the failure investigation. A first local ID for identifying a transaction processing of first information processing apparatus is related with a standard ID for relating transaction processing of the first and the second information processing apparatuses with each other the related IDs and are stored in a first mapping table. The standard ID and a transaction processing request are transmitted to the second information processing apparatus to request execution of a transaction processing therefor. If a failure occurs in the requested transaction processing, a standard ID of the transaction processing concerned is specified to inquire a second local ID for identifying the transaction processing. Mapping information for relating the first local ID corresponding to the specified standard ID with the transmitted second local ID is generated.

Claims

1. A method of processing a transaction in a system wherein at least first and second information processing devices are linked to perform transaction processings and utilize standard identifiers (IDs) for identifying related transaction processings, the method comprising steps of:

generating a standard ID for processing of the transaction in the first information processing device;

storing in a mapping table in each of the first and second information processing devices to be involved in the processing of the transaction, each of the mapping tables holding a record for the processing of the transaction for a predetermined period of time and a local ID for processing the transaction in each of the first and second information processing devices, each of the local IDs corresponding to the standard ID for processing the transaction;

sending an inquiry from the first information processing device to the second information processing device, the inquiry using the standard ID to identify the processing of the transaction;

receiving from the second information processing device, the local ID for processing the transaction of the second information processing device; and

relating the received local ID for processing the transaction of the second information processing device with a respective local ID for processing the transaction of the first information processing device which has sent the inquiry,

wherein a value of the predetermined period of time for holding said record is modified depending upon whether the information processing device which makes a transaction processing request is the first information processing device which has sent the inquiry.

2. The method of transaction processing as in claim 1, wherein a failure in the processing of the transaction occurs in the second information processing device.

3. A product for use in a transaction system wherein at least first and second information processing devices are linked to perform transaction processings and utilize standard identifiers (IDs) for identifying related transaction processings, the product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored therein for causing one or more of the information processing devices to perform steps of:

generating a standard ID for processing of the transaction in the first information processing device;

storing in a mapping table in each of the first and second information processing devices to be involved in the processing of the transaction, each of the mapping tables holding a record for the processing of the transaction for a predetermined period of time and a local ID for processing the transaction in each of the first and second information processing devices, each of the local IDs corresponding to the standard ID for processing the transaction;

sending an inquiry from the first information processing device to the second information processing device, the inquiry using the standard ID to identify the processing of the transaction;

receiving from the second information processing device, the local ID for processing the transaction of the second information processing device; and

relating the received local ID for processing the transaction of the second information processing device with a respective local ID for processing the transaction of the first information processing device which has sent the inquiry,

wherein a value of the predetermined period of time for holding said record is modified depending upon whether the information processing device which makes a transaction processing request is the information processing device which has sent the inquiry.

4. The product of claim 3, wherein a failure in the processing of the transaction occurs in the second information processing device.

5. A system for processing transactions in a plurality of information processing devices that are linked with each other, the system comprising:

(a) a first information processing device to request a transaction processing including;

(a1) a unit configured to generate a standard identifier (ID) for processing of the transaction;

(a2) a unit configured to generate and store a first local ID correlated to the standard ID in a first mapping table; and

(a3) a unit configured to send the standard ID and a transaction processing request;

(b) a second information processing device to perform the requested transaction processing including;

(b1) a unit configured to receive the standard ID and the transaction processing request; and

(b2) a unit configured to generate and store a second local ID corresponding to the requested transaction processing, the second local ID correlated to the standard ID being stored in a second mapping table, wherein;

an inquiry is sent to the second information processing device for identifying the processing the transaction using the standard ID,

the second local ID is sent to the first information processing device,

the first information processing device reads out the first local ID corresponding to the standard ID based on the second local ID from the first mapping table and relates the second local ID with the retrieved first local ID, and

a value of the predetermined period of time for holding said record is modified depending upon whether the first information processing device is the information processing device which makes the inquiry.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the second information processing device checks an existence of failure in the requested transaction processing by reading out the second local ID corresponding to the standard ID stored in the second mapping table, and sends the second local ID to the first information processing device when the failure in the requested transaction processing exists.