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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2012
Benjamin J. Fletcher, Huddersfield, GB;
Gareth E. Jones, Winchester, GB;
Benjamin J. Fletcher, Huddersfield, GB;
Gareth E. Jones, Winchester, GB;
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A natural language request for modifying a set of subscriptions for one or more topics in a publish/subscribe topic hierarchy is received at a processing device. The natural language request includes a predetermined natural language element. The natural language request is transformed into a publish/subscribe topic string and the predetermined natural language element is transformed into a publish/subscribe symbol. The symbol represents one or more topics in the topic hierarchy. One or more subscriptions to one or more topics is modified based on the transformed topic string.