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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Anand Singh, Apex, NC (US);
Erich Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Dylan J Brisco, Cary, NC (US);
Douglas Alan Larson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Vijay Kestur, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Described are techniques for in-band service chaining. The techniques include generating a topic chain for a service request that spans a set of service nodes in a distributed services environment. The topic chain indicates a sequence of topics to publish the service request so as to provide the service request to the set of service nodes via the sequence of topics. The techniques further include publishing the service request and the topic chain in a message to a first topic indicated by the topic chain to provide the service request and the topic chain to a first service node in the set of service nodes, and to allow the first service node to subsequently publish the message to a second topic indicated by the topic chain, so as to provide the service request and topic chain to a second service node in the set of service nodes.