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Abstract

A system and method for providing a scalable translation between polling-based clients and connection-based message queues are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: providing a session gateway node in data communication with a client and a server via a network, the session gateway node handling all session requests from the client; providing a user node in data communication with the server and the session gateway node via the network, the user node maintaining the set of all user queues corresponding to a particular user, the user node handling all sessions for the particular user, the user node being assigned by use of a consistent hash table; providing a polled gateway node in data communication with the client and the session gateway node via the network, the polled gateway node handling all polling requests from the client, each polling request including a session identifier corresponding to a session, the session gateway node corresponding to the session returning to the client all queued session data retained since a prior polling event; establishing a client connection between the client and a network-based service at the server; configuring a user queue for the user at the user node; and using the session gateway node to route the client connection to the appropriate user queue.

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