US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 8 for "Consumer efficiency in messaging middleware system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,695, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Consumer efficiency in messaging middleware system" was invented by Xi Bo Zhu (Beijing), Jing Yan Zhang (Beijing), Wen Wen Guo (Beijing), Yu Li (Beijing) and Ling Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing related messages in different queues in a middleware system is provided. The middleware system receives a first message that comprises a body and a header. The header includes a first message ID and a relationship key, wherein the relationship key denotes a relationship between the first message and a correlated second message....