Time and event controlled message processing

• US 20060020678A1
• Filed: 07/26/2004
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Rossmanith, Stefan, Hofmann, Christoph, Kessler, Joerg, Dahl, Andreas, Surma, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 8,793,325 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

A system and method for filtering messages in a messaging system is described. The system includes a user interface configured to receive user input for defining one or more message filters. Each message filter specifies predefined criteria by which a message is to be stopped. The system further includes a filter module comprising the one or more filters, and a queue connected with the filter module for queuing messages stopped according to one of the one or more filters. In a method, messages in the messaging system are stopped according to predefined criteria. Stopped messages are restarted according to a job executed by the messaging system.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of processing asynchronous messages in a messaging system, the method comprising:

stopping the processing of a message in the messaging system according to a time and/or event defined by a job;

storing information about the message in a persistence layer of the messaging system; and

restarting processing of the message according to the time and/or event defined by the job, and based on the information.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the information includes a receiver identity, a sender identity, or a message size.

3. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the time and/or event include an operational state of one or more receivers.

4. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the job specifies a time by which processing of the message are to be restarted.

5. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the job includes the information about the message.

6. A method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising queuing the message in a message queue.

7. A method in accordance with claim 6, wherein restarting processing of the message includes processing the message in a queue order specified by the message queue.

8. A method in accordance with claim 7, wherein queue order includes specifies all messages processed by the messaging system in a time interval.

9. A method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising receiving the time and/or event in a filter module.

10. A method in accordance with claim 9, wherein the filter module is connected with the persistence layer.

11. A method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising comparing message attributes of the message with the job.

12. A method in accordance with claim 11, wherein the information includes the message attributes.

13. A system for filtering messages in a messaging system, comprising:

a user interface configured to receive user input for defining one or more message filters, wherein each message filter specifies a time and/or event by which processing of a message is to be stopped;

a filter module comprising the one or more message filters; and

a queue connected with the filter module for queuing the message if its processing is stopped.

14. A system in accordance with claim 13, further comprising a job engine coupled with the messaging system, the job system running one or more jobs, each job defining the time and/or event.

15. A system in accordance with claim 14, each job includes a set of business processes to be executed on the message.

16. A system in accordance with claim 14, wherein the time and/or event relates to the set of business processes.

17. A system in accordance with claim 13, further comprising a persistence layer configured to store information about the message.

18. A system in accordance with claim 14, wherein the job engine is configured to restart processing of the messages according to a queue order.

19. A computer-implemented system for processing messages in a message processing platform, the system comprising:

a message communication system connected to at least one sender of a message and at least one receiver of the message; and

code running on the message communication system, the code being configured to;

stop the processing of a message in the message communication system according to a time and/or event defined by a job;

store information about the message in a persistence layer of the message communication system; and

restart processing of the message according to the time and/or event defined by the job, and based on the information.

20. A system in accordance with claim 19, further comprising a queue for storing a copy of the message if its processing is stopped.