EMBEDDED CODES IN MESSAGING PROTOCOL COMMUNICATIONS

• US 20180152405A1
• Filed: 11/28/2016
• Published: 05/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kuo, Calvin Yue-Ren, Turow, Jonathan I., Choi, Kyunghwan, Brooker, Marc John, Sorenson, III, James Christopher, McClenahan, Weili Zhong, Rafn, Mark Edward
• Granted Patent: US 10,608,973 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes

Abstract

Systems and methods are described for management of data transmitted between computing devices in a communication network. An administrative component can configure one or more devices in the communication path of messages to be exchanged by devices to interpret codes embedded in the communication messages. A receiving device can review incoming messages for one or more processing codes or instructions that are embedded in the portion of the communication typically utilized solely to identify the subject matter of the communication, generally referred to as the topic portion of the communication. The receiving devices can then process the embedded codes to determine how the communication message will be routed or otherwise processed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for managing the execution of commands on a computing device utilizing a messaging protocol comprising:

receiving, at a message processing service, from an administrative client device, information related to configuration of message processing functionality to identify a set of codes embedded in a topic portion of received messages and process the received messages in accordance with instructions associated with identified codes, wherein the messages are formed in accordance with the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol;

receiving, by the message processing service, a received message from a device, wherein the received message includes a topic portion that includes one or more levels associated with subject matter descriptors and one or more levels identifying at least one embedded code;

identifying, by the message processing service, a set of recipient devices registered to receive messages based on the topic portion of the messages;

parsing, by the message processing service, the topic portion of the received message to identify the at least one embedded code;

processing, by the message processing service, the received message in accordance with the identified at least one embedded code utilizing the configuration of the message processing functionality, wherein the processing of the received message includes identification of a subset of the identified set of recipient devices to receive the received message; and

publishing, by the message processing service, the processed received message to the subset of recipient device in the set of recipient devices.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing, by the message processing service, the received message in accordance with the identified at least one embedded code utilizing the configuration of the message processing functionality includes a selection of the at least one recipient device based on evaluation of at least one criteria.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the subset of recipient devices correspond to a coordinated device and wherein the received message corresponds to instructions to execute a task by a coordinated device.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the message processing service corresponds to a coordinator for coordinated devices.

5. A system for managing communications utilizing a message protocol comprising:

a message processing service implemented on at least one computing device having a processor and a memory, the remote command service configured to receive and publish messages formed in accordance with a messaging protocol,

wherein the message processing service is configured to;

receive an incoming message corresponding to a topic portion, the topic portion including at least one embedded code and at least one level describing a subject matter of the incoming message;

process the embedded code according to a message processing configuration; and

publish the processed incoming message.

6. The system as recited in claim 5 further comprising an administrative client device configured to configure the message processing service by associating one or more actions with as set of embedded codes.

7. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the message processing service parses the topic to identify the embedded code.

8. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the message processing service processes the embedded code by selecting a subset of possible recipients for the incoming message.

9. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the message processing service processes the embedded code by modifying executable code included the incoming message.

10. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the message processing service processes the embedded code by modifying timing associated with publishing the processed incoming message.

11. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the message includes an assignment for a task and wherein the message processing service processes the embedded code by selecting a recipient device to process the task.

12. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the messaging protocol comprises the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol.

13. A computer-implemented method for managing messages utilizing message protocols comprising:

receiving messages formed in accordance with a messaging protocol, the messages corresponding to a topic, the topic including at least one embedded code and a subject matter description; and

processing the embedded code according to a message processing configuration.

14. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 13 further comprising parsing the topic to identify the embedded code.

15. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 13, wherein processing the embedded code includes selecting a subset of possible recipients for the message.

16. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 13, wherein the messages include one or more executable portions and wherein processing the embedded code includes modifying the execution of the one or more executable portions.

17. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 16, wherein processing the embedded code includes modifying timing associated with executing the one or more executable portions.

18. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 16, wherein at least one message includes two or more executable code portions and wherein processing the embedded code includes selecting from the two or more executable portions.

19. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 16, wherein at least one message includes two or more executable code portions and wherein processing the embedded code includes deleting one of the two or more executable portions.

20. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 13, wherein the messaging protocol comprises the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol.