Performing an operation on a message received from a publish/subscribe service

• US 7,720,914 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2005
• Issued: 05/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lagarde, Konrad C., Jania, Frank, Van Der Meulen, Michael, Goodman, Brian D., Shu, Chen
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, THANH T
• Application Number:
  US11/197,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20050267896A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,747 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/245, 709/223, 709/213, 709/220, 434/157, 370/352, 707/10
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2876 Pairs of inter-processing entities at each side of the network, e.g. split proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54

Abstract

A client subscribes to a pub/sub service, the client comprises an application program for performing an operation on a published message received from a Pub/Sub service. The operation on the message comprises any one of saving the message to storage, accessing a web service based on information in the received message, authorizing subscription, executing an application identified by the message, filtering the message information for presentation to a user, overriding a message function, transforming the message media format or forwarding the message to another node.

Claims

1. A method for performing an operation on a publish/subscribe message, the method comprising the steps of:

a client subscribing to receive messages from a publish/subscribe service by subscribing to a channel of the publish/subscribe service by a User Interface (UI) function at a client computer;

receiving by said publish/subscribe service a topic message associated with a subscribed topic to be published from a content provider for blind publication to a plurality of subscriber systems having selected the topic of said topic message;

concurrently publishing the received topic message to said plurality of subscribers over said subscribed channel of said publish/subscribe service, said published topic message from said publish/subscribe service channel being identical for each of said subscribers;

receiving at the client computer said topic message published by the publish/subscribe service channel;

providing the received message to a client application program running at the client computer;

blocking said published topic message from further processing by said client unless said topic message is directed to a sub-topic selected by a UI filtering function of the client computer by said subscriber, each of said plurality of subscribers selecting respective sub-topics for each respective subscriber; and

the application program performing a first operation on the received message for accepting the unblocked topic message published by said publish/subscribe service channel;

said first operation including any one of the steps of;

presenting the message information to a user;

saving the message to storage;

accessing a web service based on information in the received message;

authorizing the subscription;

executing an application identified by the message;

overriding a message function;

transforming the message media format;

or

forwarding the message to another node; and

the said method comprising the further steps of performing a Boolean operation on text fields of the message; and

initiating the first operation based on the results of the Boolean operation.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the message is any one of an instant message, a digital file, an automated agent or an email message.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the transforming the message media format comprises transforming the message from a form comprising any one of:

encrypted, decrypted compressed, decompressed, text, audio, video or image;

to a form comprising any one of;

encrypted, decrypted compressed, decompressed, text, audio, video or image.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the message comprises a subscriber authorizing agent for authorizing the subscription to receive messages from the publish/subscribe service.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the message comprises a program application module for execution at the client computer.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the message is forwarded to another node comprising any one of a computer, a telephone, a radio or a television.

7. A computer program product for performing an operation on a publish/subscribe message, the computer program product comprising:

a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

a client subscribing to receive messages from a publish/subscribe service by subscribing to a channel of the publish/subscribe service by a User Interface (UI) function at a client computer;

receiving by said publish/subscribe service a topic message associated with a subscribed topic to be published from a content provider for blind publication to a plurality of subscriber systems having selected the topic of said topic message;

concurrently publishing the received topic message to said plurality of subscribers over said subscribed channel of said publish/subscribe service, said published topic message from said publish/subscribe service being identical for each of said subscribers;

receiving at the client computer said topic message published by the publish/subscribe service channel;

providing the received message to a client application program running at the client computer;

blocking said published topic message from further processing by said client unless said topic message is directed to a sub-topic selected by a UI filtering function of the client computer by said subscriber, each of said plurality of subscribers selecting respective sub-topics for each respective subscriber; and

the application program performing a first operation on the received message for accepting the unblocked topic message published by said publish/subscribe service channel;

said first operation including any one of the steps of;

presenting the message information to a user;

saving the message to storage;

accessing a web service based on information in the received message;

authorizing the subscription;

executing an application identified by the message;

overriding a message function;

transforming the message media format;

or

forwarding the message to another node; and

the said method comprising the further steps of performing a Boolean operation on text fields of the message; and

initiating the first operation based on the results of the Boolean operation.

8. The computer program product according to claim 7 wherein the message is any one of an instant message, a digital file, and automated agent or an email message.

9. The computer program product according to claim 7 wherein the transforming the message media format comprises transforming the message from a form comprising any one of:

encrypted, decrypted compressed, decompressed, text, audio, video or image;

to a form comprising any one of;

encrypted, decrypted compressed, decompressed, text, audio, video or image.

10. The computer program product according to claim 7 wherein the message comprises a subscriber authorizing agent for authorizing the subscription to receive messages from the publish/subscribe service.

11. The computer program product according to claim 7 wherein the message comprises a program application module for execution at the client computer.

12. The computer program product according to claim 7 wherein the message is forwarded to another node comprising any one of a computer, a telephone, a radio or a television.

13. A system for performing an operation on a publish/subscribe message, the computer program product comprising:

a network;

a client system in communication with the network;

a publish/subscribe service in communication with the network, wherein the system includes instructions to execute a method comprising a method comprising the steps of;

subscribing by the client to receive messages from a publish/subscribe service by subscribing to a channel of the publish/subscribe service by a User Interface (UI) function at the client system;

receiving by said publish/subscribe service a topic message associated with a subscribed topic to be published from a content provider for blind publication to a plurality of subscriber systems having selected the topic of said topic message;

concurrently publishing the received topic message to said plurality of subscribers over said subscribed channel of said publish/subscribe service, said published topic message from said publish/subscribe service channel being identical for each of said subscribers;

receiving at the client system said topic message published by the publish/subscribe service channel;

providing the received message to a client application program running at the client system;

blocking said published topic message from further processing by said client unless said topic message is directed to a sub-topic selected by a UI filtering function of the client system by said subscriber, each of said plurality of subscribers selecting respective sub-topics for each respective subscriber; and

the application program performing a first operation on the received message for accepting the unblocked topic message published by said publish/subscribe service channel;

said first operation including any one of the steps of;

presenting the message information to a user;

saving the message to storage;

accessing a web service based on information in the received message;

authorizing the subscription;

executing an application identified by the message;

overriding a message function;

transforming the message media format;

or

forwarding the message to another node; and

the said method comprising the further steps of performing a Boolean operation on text fields of the message; and

initiating the first operation based on the results of the Boolean operation.

14. The system according to claim 13 wherein the message is any one of an instant message, a digital file, and automated agent or an email message.

15. The system according to claim 13 wherein the method comprises the further steps of:

transforming of the message media format comprising any one of;

encrypted, decrypted compressed, decompressed, text, audio, video or image;

to a form comprising any one of;

encrypted, decrypted compressed, decompressed, text, audio, video or image.