International Business Machines Corporation

Morag Ann Hughson

Anthony John O'Dowd

Trevor Lobban

Amardeep S Bhattal

Hazel Heather Fix

Neil Kenneth Johnston

Jonathan Woodford

A computer implemented method for providing feedback to a publisher, comprising: responsive to receiving a published message from the publisher comprising an option requesting feedback, comparing the message with subscriber data; and responsive to the publish operation and responsive to determining a matching subscriber associated with the published message, selecting a notification for transmission to the publisher.

Method for providing feedback to a publisher

Provided are methods, data communication apparatus and computer programs for managing communications between a remote communication manager and a set of communications managers in an associated group. The group of communication managers have shared access to resources which enable any communication manager in the group to recover from failures experienced by another communication manager in the group. In particular, recovery of failed inbound and outbound channels is achieved with the advantage of improved availability of data transmissions. Preferably, the recovery uses synchronization information to ensure that data is recovered to a consistent state to that channel recovery is achieved without loss of data integrity.

Recovery following process or system failure

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Southampton, United Kingdom

Morag Ann Hughson