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Message filtering

  • US 20030120785A1
  • Filed: 12/10/2002
  • Published: 06/26/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communications manager for receiving publications and forwarding said publications on to parties who have subscribed to receive such publications, said communications manager comprising:

  • means for storing a plurality of filter expressions independently of the process of registering subscriptions, each filter expression being stored in an optimised format;

    means for permitting the optimised format of a stored filter expression to be referenced by a party wishing to receive publications filtered according to that filter expression; and

    means for parsing publications received against said optimised filter expression in order to determine which publications should be forwarded on to said party.

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