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Authorizing message publication to a group of subscribing clients via a publish/subscribe service

  • US 7,941,488 B2
  • Filed: 12/10/2003
  • Issued: 05/10/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for publishing electronic messages to a first group of clients within a group of clients in a publish/subscribe message publishing environment the first group of clients comprising:

  • authorized authorizing participating clients in network communication with a publish/subscribe service, the publish/subscription service publishing to the first group of clients over channels with each channel having a channel topic;

    receiving subscriptions from the first group of clients by the publish/subscribe service for publishing over a channel having a channel topic according to the subscriber'"'"'s selection, the subscriptions to persist during a specified criteria;

    authenticating the identity of a first client as being in the first group of clients identified by the channel;

    receiving a message from the authenticated first client, the message having the channel identification as a part thereof and destined for publication to a first group of clients;

    verifying the first client is authorized for publishing messages to the first group of clients for the identified channel of the first group of clients;

    publishing the message by way of the publish/subscribe service to clients of the first group of clients for the channel topic;

    publishing with the publish/subscribe service, an application to be run on the clients of the first group of clients; and

    associating the first client identity with a client group by an authorization database, a data repository and a predefined attribute.

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