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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jia R. Wei, Beijing, CN;
Jing G. Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Jun J. Zhang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kai Zhang, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method retrieves in order a plurality of specific topic-based messages in a distributed publish/subscribe system, the distributed publish/subscribe system comprising at least one message transit server, the method comprising: determining an order of a plurality of to-be retrieved messages; recording, in message transit server sequence information, message transit servers where the plurality of messages are located, respectively, an order of the message transit servers in the message transit server sequence information corresponding to the determined order of the plurality of messages; and retrieving in order the plurality of messages from corresponding message transit servers using the message transit server sequence information.