System and method for communicating with an electronic exchange in an electronic trading environment

• US 8,312,149 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2012
• Issued: 11/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Inventors: Crouch, Neil P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Avellino, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Afolabi, Mark O
• Application Number:
  US13/420,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20120173738A1
• Time in Patent Office: 243 Days
• Field of Search: 709200-227, 705/1, 705/28, 705/26, 705/56, 705/35, 705/37, 705/36
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/102 Gateways arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways, H04L12/66
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/145 avoiding end of session, e.g. keep-alive, heartbeats, resumption message or wake-up for inactive or interrupted session

Abstract

System and methods for a connection proxy server are described. According to an example method described herein, a connection proxy server stores subscription, product tables as well as other downloads that are provided to a client terminal during initialization stage as well as later during a trading session. Upon detecting that a connection between the client terminal and a gateway is lost, the connection proxy maintains a communication session created for the client terminal at the gateway and receives data intended for the client terminal. If the connection is re-established between the client terminal and the gateway during a predetermined period of time, the connection proxy provides the stored data to the client terminal thus avoiding a surge in processing resources at the gateway due to the necessary downloads.

Claims

1. A method including:

providing by a connection proxy a signal to an intermediary device to maintain a communication session at the intermediary device for a predetermined period of time, wherein the signal is provided in response to detecting that a network communication link between a client terminal and the intermediary device has been terminated, wherein the client terminal communicates with an electronic exchange using the communication session established for the client terminal at the intermediary device;

receiving by the connection proxy market data related to a tradeable object during the predetermined period of time;

providing by the connection proxy initial download data and the market data related to the tradeable object to the client terminal if the network communication link between the client terminal and the intermediary device is restored during the predetermined period of time; and

terminating by the connection proxy the signal being provided if the network communication link between the client terminal and the intermediary device is not restored during the predetermined period of time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the connection proxy is located at the intermediary device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediary device includes a gateway.

4. The method of claim 1, where providing by the connection proxy the signal to the intermediary device to maintain the communication session at the intermediary device includes:

generating by the connection proxy a heartbeat message on behalf of the client terminal; and

providing by the connection proxy the heartbeat message to the intermediary device at predefined time intervals during the predetermined period of time.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the market data includes price data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the market data includes market depth data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the market data includes order fill data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the market data includes order confirmation data.

9. The method of claim 1, further including:

receiving by the connection proxy the initial download data; and

storing by the connection proxy the initial download data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the initial download data includes initialization data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the initial download data includes subscription data.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the initial download data includes data related to at least one tradeable object being traded at the electronic exchange.

13. The method of claim 1, further including:

updating by the connection proxy the initial download data during a trading day.

14. The method of claim 1, further including:

detecting by the connection proxy that the network communication link has been restored during the predetermined period of time.

15. The method of claim 1, further including:

detecting by the connection proxy that the network communication link has not been restored during the predetermined period of time.

16. The method of claim 1, further including providing by the connection proxy a signal to terminate the communication session at the intermediary device.