Method of routing messages to multiple consumers

US8180823B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Srinivas Hasti · Raleigh, US
• Brian Martin · McMurray, US
• Michael J. Spreitzer · Croton-on-Hudson, US
• Graham Derek Wallis · Romsey, GB
• David Ware · New Milton, GB
• Neil Young · Downingtown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 27, 2008
• Grant date: May 15, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 26, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of routing messages to multiple consumers comprises determining a probability function defining message classification probabilities for each of a plurality of consumer sets, receiving a plurality of messages, classifying each message, storing each message in a queue, receiving notification of a consumer available to process a message, ascertaining the consumer set to which the available consumer belongs, accessing the probabilities for the ascertained consumer set, selecting a message classification according to the accessed probabilities, and transmitting a message, of the selected classification, to the available consumer.