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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2006
Stephen Glen Graham, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Peter David Niblett, Whitchurch, GB;
Stephen James Todd, Winchester, GB;
Stephen Glen Graham, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Peter David Niblett, Whitchurch, GB;
Stephen James Todd, Winchester, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for messaging subscription management by subscribing a subscriber to a publisher, providing a broker brokering message flow between the publisher and the subscriber whereby the publisher publishes information to the broker which then forwards the information to the subscriber, and filtering messages whereby any messages not originating from the publisher are filtered out. The filtering may comprise modifying at the publisher a filter supplied by the subscriber and sending the modified filter to the broker, or may comprise modifying at the subscriber a filter and sending the modified filter to the broker.