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Publish and subscribe data processing with failover using cascaded sequence numbers

US6298455A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 29, 1998
Grant dateOct 2, 2001
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Expiry dateDec 29, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L12/1859
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a publish/subscribe data processing broker network having a plurality of broker data processing apparatuses, each of which has an input for receiving published messages directly from a publisher application and/or receiving subscription data directly from a subscriber application, and each of which having a means for receiving a published message on a first topic and assigning a broker-specific sequence number to the received message; a first broker apparatus has: a software unit for determining a failure of a neighboring broker apparatus which has provided published messages on the first topic to the first broker apparatus; and a software unit for sending historic resubscriptions with respect to the first topic to each antecedent broker apparatus of the failed neighboring broker apparatus by using the broker-specific sequence number corresponding to each antecedent broker apparatus.

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