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Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Peter A. Broadhurst, Eastleigh, GB;

John Hosie, Eastleigh, GB;

Robert B. Nicholson, Southsea, GB;

Robert W. Phippen, Romsey, GB;

Jianjun Zhang, Cary, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/14 (2013.01); H04L 67/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A facility for processing an event of a distributed processing environment is provided. The facility includes separating a plurality of processing flows into a plurality of flow groups, each flow group having a respective identifier. The identifier of each flow group is then associated with a respective topic. Based on the occurrence of an event, a message having a topic based on the event is published along with the identifier of the flow group associated with the topic. A processing flow of the flow group having the identifier of the message may then be used to process the event.


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