System and method for correlating messages within a wireless transaction

Abstract

A method and system for correlating messages within a wireless transaction, each of the messages requiring a unique message identifier, the method having the steps of: creating a transaction identifier, the transaction identifier being the same for related messages; and adding to the transaction identifier a message index, the message index corresponding to a number of a message within a transaction, whereby the transaction identifier and message index form the unique message identifier for each of the messages.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to the efficient communication of messages and transactions in an asynchronous communication environment, and more particularly to the correlation of messages in wireless networks. Background technique [0002] In a wireless communication environment, messages are sent between wireless devices and network elements such as servers. These messages typically include a unique identifier for identifying the message. This unique identifier is hereinafter referred to as "message id". [0003] Additionally, the message will typically include a field identifying the message type to allow the wireless device or network component to more easily interpret the message. [0004] The messages themselves may generally be grouped into logical groups of discrete messages between devices and network elements. For example, an outgoing message may be associated in some way with a subsequently received incoming message. A logical ...

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However, since the transaction identifier needs to be large enough to distinguish it from other transaction identifiers, the overhead in terms of network resources for adding the transaction identifier to each message is considerable, thus The addition of the transaction identifier field is intractable

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