Overload prevention in a service control point (scp)

摘要

A transaction processing system, which may be a telecommunications service platform, includes a network interface which in use is connected to a communications network, a transaction processor and a governor. The governor is programmed with a static limit value for the rate of transaction processing, and causes inbound transactions to be released once the limit value is reached. The governor may respond both to initial messages at the beginning of a transaction, and to intermediate messages during the subsequent processing of a transaction.