Appeal No. 1997-3429 Application 08/307,212 DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 1-8. We reverse. BACKGROUND The disclosed invention is directed to a system and method for reducing message traffic during a two phase commitment protocol in a distributed transaction processing system. Only subordinate coordinators that manage modifiable or recoverable resources (resources that are not read-only) dynamically register with the transaction coordinator, which minimizes the size of the commit tree thereby minimizing the number of messages transmitted during commitment processing. Claim 1 is reproduced below. 1. A method for coordinating resource modification transaction requests to reduce message traffic in a computer implemented transaction processing system, the transaction processing system operating on one or more processors each having a plurality of resources that can be changed by said transaction processing system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a transaction request to modify one or more of said plurality of resources and assigning said transaction a global identifier; - 2 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007