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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1997
Clare Chu, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for filtering and acting upon data are provided. The specific identity, behavior and relationship between the various components that make up the system are not fixed at compile time. Rather, flexibility is maintained by establishing the identity, behavior and relationships based on configuration data at run time. At run time, various source, filter and action modules that are specified in configuration data are loaded into dynamic memory and initialized. The publisher-subscriber relationships are then established between the loaded modules based on said configuration data. A user interface is provided which allows a user to specify changes to the publisher-subscriber relationships between the components, or to the initialization arguments of the components. The various components of the system may be implemented as objects that are instances of JAVA classes.