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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 02, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Avraham Harpaz, Haifa, IL;

Nir Naaman, Haifa, IL;

Yoav Tock, Haifa, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer implemented method of improving server coverage of a publish-subscribe cluster of servers, comprising using a cluster comprising a plurality of servers each having hardware processor(s), the cluster is adapted to execute messaging engines of a publish-subscribe service for forwarding a plurality of messages to a plurality of subscribing clients, each message is associated with one of a plurality of topics, wherein distributed subscriptions client(s) applies shared subscriptions for one or more topics through subscription group(s) each comprising a subset of the subscribing clients, monitor shared subscriptions made by the subscription group(s) to each of the messaging engines for each topic, generate a shared subscriptions information for each topic by analyzing the shared subscriptions and publish the shared subscriptions information to the clients to allow client(s) of the subscription group(s) to subscribe for the topic(s) on a preferred messaging engine to improve a server coverage of their subscription group.


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