Performing an operation on a message received from a publish/subscribe service

US7627639B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Brian D. Goodman · New Haven, US
• Frank L. Jania · Chapel Hill, US
• Konrad Lagarde · Milford, US
• Chen Shu · Oakville, US
• Michael Van Der Meulen · Woodbridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 2005
• Grant date: Dec 1, 2009
• Expiry date: Feb 20, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A client subscribes to a pub/sub service, the client comprises an application program for performing an operation on a published message received from a Pub/Sub service. The operation on the message comprises any one of saving the message to storage, accessing a web service based on information in the received message, authorizing subscription, executing an application identified by the message, filtering the message information for presentation to a user, overriding a message function, transforming the message media format or forwarding the message to another node.