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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
Gerald L. Hinson, Snohomish, WA (US);
Mohsen M. Al-ghosein, Redmond, WA (US);
Donald W. Dumitru, Bellevue, WA (US);
Donald J. Mccrady, Redmond, WA (US);
Seth B. Pollack, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen T. Swartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Gerald L. Hinson, Snohomish, WA (US);
Mohsen M. Al-Ghosein, Redmond, WA (US);
Donald W. Dumitru, Bellevue, WA (US);
Donald J. McCrady, Redmond, WA (US);
Seth B. Pollack, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen T. Swartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An object-based event communications system supplies an event distribution object having an outgoing-from-publisher event interface and associated with unique identifiers defined for a publisher that is programmed to fire events by calling a method on the event distribution object's outgoing-from-publisher event interface. The event communications system stores subscriptions of subscriber objects to methods of the outgoing-from-publisher event interface. On receiving a call from a publisher to its outgoing-from-publisher interface methods, the event distribution object multi-casts calls to counterpart methods of subscriber objects that have stored subscriptions to the respective outgoing-from-publisher interface methods.