Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Cesar Martin Ruiz-Meraz

Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram

Hillary Caituiro Monge

Venkata Raja Gopal Ravipati

Hitesh Madan

Clemens Friedrich Vasters

David Leon Stucki

PadmaPriya Aradhyula Bhavani

Ashraf Hamad

Bahram Banisadr

Venkata RajaGopal Ravipati

Umesh Madan

Saurab Nog

Padma Priya Aradhyula Bhavani

Alfred McClung Lee, Iv

Padmapriya Aradhyula Bhavani

Systems and methods for providing targeted event notifications to subscribers are disclosed. In an example embodiment, events may be received from a publisher. The events may be categorized into a plurality of topics. The events may be distributed among brokers to process a topic selected from the plurality of topics based on the events. Further, it may be determined whether the topic exists in a list of topics handled by the brokers. Authentication credentials of the publisher may be validated, based on the determination. Based on the validation, queues of the events may be formed based on an order of receipt of the events. The events present in the queues may be filtered based on subscriptions of the events. For the fileted events, targeted even notifications may be forwarded to the subscribers.

Subscription based event notifications

Optimizations are provided for interconnecting event sources with event subscribers in a seamless manner so that the native formatting/schema methodologies used by event sources and subscribers will not need to be natively modified. An event grid service is provided as a routing and mapping service. This event grid service receives event data that may be organized in any kind of format. By analyzing the format, the event grid service determines whether the format correlates with a format used by a consumer of that event data. If the formats conform, then the event grid service extracts relevant data from the event data and pushes it to the subscriber. If the formats do not conform, the event grid service intelligently generates a mapping to map the two formats together.

Input and output schema mappings

Systems and methods for filtering and routing event notifications to subscribers are disclosed. In an example embodiment, events from a publisher may be received. Each of the events may be associated with a topic, and the topic may be compared with topics present in broker metadata cache, based on one of prefixes and a fast lookup technique using a hash-table. Further, it may be determined whether the topic associated the events is present in the broker metadata cache based on comparison. Based upon determining, matching nodes for the events may be retrieved. Further, the events may be routed based on routing tables and availability of the matching nodes. Based on the routing, the events may be forwarded to the subscribers.

Routing and filtering event notifications

Systems and methods for dispatching targeted event notifications to subscribers are disclosed. In an embodiment, the system includes a receiver to receive events from a publisher. The system further comprises a router in communication with the receiver to route the events. The system further comprises a director to forward the targeted event notifications to the subscribers based on the routing. The director receives a delivery status of the targeted event notification from the subscribers. The delivery status includes one of success in receiving the targeted event notification and failure in receiving the targeted event notification. The director receives an event notification with the delivery status as failure in receiving the targeted event notification. The director places the targeted event notification in a delayed queue indicative of events to be delivered after a predefined time. The director re-transmits the targeted event notification to the subscribers based on the delayed queue.

Event delivery

Systems and methods for dispatching targeted event notifications to subscribers are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a notification indicating creation of an even subscription by a subscriber may be received. An event source may be invoked to enable publishing of events corresponding to an event topic associated with the event subscription. A response from the event source for publishing of the events may be received and targeted event notifications may be forwarded to the subscribers on receiving the response.

Managing subscriptions for event notifications

Publishing events. A method includes a publisher sending a message comprising one or more events to a domain. The domain is a container comprising a group of domain topics. Each domain topic in the domain is relevant by subject matter to the one or more events by virtue of belonging to the container. The method further includes, at the domain determining the appropriate domain topics from the group of domain topics for each event in the one or more events. The method further includes identifying subscribers to the appropriate domain topics. The method further includes sending notifications to the subscribers of the domain topics of the one or more events.

Event domains

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for relaying messages through firewalls. A message relay negotiates first communication parameters with relay components inside a firewall and (potentially different) second communication parameters with applications outside the firewall. The message relay receives a message from an outside application in accordance with the second negotiated parameters and maps an electronic address in the received message to an inside application. The message relay transforms the message and sends the transformed message over an established connection through the firewall to a relay component in accordance with the first negotiated parameters. The relay component receives the transformed message and transforms the transformed message back into the message. The relay component delivers the message to the inside application in accordance with the second negotiated parameters.

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Cesar Martin Ruiz-Meraz