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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2009
David Postlethwaite, Horton Heath, GB;
Jonathan Lee Rumsey, Winchester, GB;
Ian Charles Edwards, Upper Shirley, GB;
Peter Siddall, Romsey, GB;
David Postlethwaite, Horton Heath, GB;
Jonathan Lee Rumsey, Winchester, GB;
Ian Charles Edwards, Upper Shirley, GB;
Peter Siddall, Romsey, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling subscriptions comprising: a detector operable to detect to a subscription associated with a wildcard topic string; and an analyzer, responsive to the detection of the subscription associated with a wildcard topic string and a topic string of a topic node matching the wildcard topic string, for analyzing a first attribute of the topic node; and means for determining whether a subscriber associated with the subscription should receive a message associated with the topic string of the topic node.