Selective message republishing to subscriber subsets in a publish-subscribe model

• US 9,654,433 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2015
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kesavan, Sanjay M., Samantaray, Sonali, Lalgowdar, Rajesh, Thyagaraj, Lohitashwa
• Primary Examiner(s): Eskandarnia, Arvin
• Assistant Examiner(s): DUONG, THAO DUC
• Application Number:
  US14/689,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20160087923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for selectively resending a first message in a publish-subscribe message distribution model is provided. The method may include receiving the first message having a first message ID associated with the first message. The method may include sending the first message to a plurality of subscribers. The method may include receiving a rolled back first message. The method may include determining if the first message ID matches a second message ID associated with a second message. The method may include creating a first subscriber list associated with the first message. The method may include storing the first message in a data structure. The method may include appending a second subscriber list associated with the second message with a subscriber. The method may include sending the second message to the first subscriber or the first message to the first subscriber.

Claims

1. A method for selectively resending a message in a publish-subscribe message distribution model, the method comprising:

receiving the message;

determining that at least one subscriber within a plurality of subscribers is a non-durable subscriber;

generating a dynamic unique ID for the non-durable subscriber, wherein the generated dynamic unique ID is valid for a lifecycle associated with the non-durable subscriber;

generating a message ID for the received message, wherein the generated message ID is assigned to the received message;

sending the received message to the plurality of subscribers;

receiving a rolled back message from a subscriber within the plurality of subscribers;

incrementing a redelivery counter associated with the received rolled back message;

resending the rolled back message to the subscriber based on determining the redelivery counter does not exceed a count limit;

enqueuing the received rolled back message in a data structure based on determining the redelivery counter exceeds the count limit and based on determining that no message enqueued in the data structure has an ID matching the message ID of the received rolled back message;

creating a republish list associated with the enqueued rolled back message in response to enqueuing the enqueued rolled back message;

adding a subscriber ID associated with the subscriber to the republish list based on determining the redelivery counter exceeds the count limit;

determining that the enqueued rolled back message should be resent;

retrieving the republish list associated with the rolled back message based on determining that the enqueued rolled back message should be resent;

determining when a subscriber ID matches a subscriber ID in the retrieved republish list;

creating a message copy based on the rolled back message for a subscriber associated with the subscriber ID in the retrieved republish list;

sending the created message copy to the subscriber associated with the subscriber ID;

removing the subscriber ID from the retrieved republish list; and

dequeuing the rolled back message from the data structure based on determining that there are no remaining subscriber IDs in the retrieved republish list.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

resending the rolled back message to the subscriber a predetermined number of times.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the rolled back message from the subscriber comprises the subscriber encountering an issue attempting to process the message and rolling back the message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data structure comprises an exception queue.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the subscriber has an identifier that is valid until the subscriber disconnects from a messaging oriented middleware system.