US Patent 7353311 Method of accessing information and system therefor

A method is disclosed whereby a priority amongst transactions capable of being processed at a common time is determined based upon a transaction identifier associated with each of the transaction. The transaction identifier can either directly indicate a priority amongst the transactions, or use to index storage locations that indicate priority values. The transaction identifiers can be selected to be associated with a transaction by the requesting device or other priority determination module based upon predefined criteria.