In transaction processing systems, it is known for resource-updating operations within a transaction to be backed out at the request of an application program following detection of error conditions during processing of the transaction. If the error condition is very likely to recur, it may be undesirable...http://www.google.fr/patents/US5465328?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US5465328 - Fault-tolerant transaction-oriented data processing
Fault-tolerant transaction-oriented data processing