International Business Machines Corporation

Steven William Bolam

Andrew Ian Hickson

David Ware

Brian Clive Homewood

John Michael Knapman

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 from a subscriber application, a first broker data processing apparatus has: a unit for receiving a data message published on a first topic by a first publisher application; and a unit for forwarding the received published data message to a subscriber application which has requested, by entering subscription data, to receive a message on the first topic; wherein the first broker data processing apparatus sends a declaration to at least one other broker data processing apparatus of said plurality of broker data processing apparatuses declaring that the first broker data processing apparatus is the only broker data processing apparatus that is directly communicating with a publisher application that is publishing on the first topic.

Publish and subscribe data processing apparatus, method and computer program product with declaration of a unique publisher broker

A publishing data processing method for use 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, the method includes steps of: Publishing a message on a topic to a first broker data processing apparatus; and providing an indication as to whether the published data message is to be considered as local to the first broker apparatus. Also included are an analogous subscribing data processing method, an analogous broker data processing method, apparatuses and computer program products.

Publish and subscribe data processing with ability to specify a local publication/subscription

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 from a subscriber application, a first broker apparatus has: a software unit for receiving via said input subscription data from a subscriber application; a software unit for providing an acknowledgement to said subscriber application to acknowledge that the subscription data has been received; a software unit for propagating said subscription data to a group of other broker apparatuses; a software unit for determining whether said means for propagating has propagated said subscription data to the group of other broker apparatuses; and a software unit for receiving via said input an indication from said subscriber application that said acknowledgement should not be sent to the subscriber application until the means for determining has determined that said means for propagating has propagated said subscription data to the group of other broker apparatuses.

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Steven William Bolam