US Patent 7400624 Hashing based messaging approach to a cluster

In a system and method for distributing and processing messages, a message may be sent to a message middleware component by a message producer. The message middleware component may provide the message to a cluster of nodes (such as a cluster of application servers or a cluster of application components). The node may implement a message verifier to determine if it is the node responsible for processing the message. The node that is responsible for processing the message may process the message and communicate the result to the other nodes. The other nodes not responsible for processing the message may ignore the message.