US Patent 7103597 Adaptive transaction manager for complex transactions and business process

This is a method for managing and optimizing transaction processing that: (1) significantly expands the robustness of systems with respect to consistency, reliability, and recoverability; (2) provides multiple performance improvements over traditional methods; (3) enables transactions in a distributed business process to recover from errors without the cost of two-phase commit; (4) enables enhancements to resource management; and, (5) provides improved scheduling. The method further enables a high degree of collaborative and adaptive transaction management over traditional transaction managers.