| CPC G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01) | 16 Claims |
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1. An article of manufacture comprising:
a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a set of one or more electronic devices, are configurable to cause the set of electronic devices to perform operations comprising:
receiving a first pricing request in accordance with a first application programming interface (API) of a first pricing service, the first pricing request indicating a first set of pricing data of a first size,
responsively performing by the first pricing service a first set of pricing operations on the first set of pricing data to generate a first pricing result;
receiving a second pricing request in accordance with a second API of the first pricing service or a second pricing service, the second API supporting asynchronous pricing operations, the second pricing request indicating a second set of pricing data of a second size greater than the first size;
subdividing the second set of pricing data indicated by the second pricing request into a plurality of portions;
scheduling, by a scheduler, a plurality of pricing jobs corresponding to the plurality of portions, each pricing job indicating a separate set of pricing operations;
queuing, by the scheduler, the plurality of pricing jobs for execution;
executing the plurality of pricing jobs partly or entirely in parallel by pricing engines of the first pricing service and/or the second pricing service to produce a corresponding plurality of partial results; and
aggregating the plurality of partial pricing results to generate a second pricing result.
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