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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJoshua S. Auerbach, Simon Antony Holdsworth, Neil George Young
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The invention relates to a communications manager, method and computer program for receiving publications and forwarding these on to parties who have subscribed to receive such publications. A subscription request of a first type is received and includes a filter expression having at least one attribute. It is possible to map at least part of such an attribute(s) to a generic format (generic format filter attribute(s)). It is also possible to receive a publication message of a second type and to compare the publication received with the subscription request to determine whether the publication is appropriate for forwarding onto the subscriber originating the request. To enable such a comparison, a generic format filter attribute(s) is identified and is mapped to a format corresponding to the second message type. Once a match is found, the publication can then be transmitted to the originating subscriber.
A communications manager for receiving publications and forwarding said publications on to parties who have subscribed to receive such publications, said communications manager comprising:
The communications manager of any preceding claim comprising:
The communications manager of any preceding claim, wherein said means for mapping a generic format filter attribute to a format corresponding to the second message type comprises:
The communications manager of any preceding claim, wherein said format corresponding to the second message type is held in temporary storage until said comparison is complete.
A method for receiving publications and forwarding said publications on to parties who have subscribed to receive such publications, said method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.