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Automated duplicate message content detection

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsJose Emir Garza, Stephen James Hobson

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Abstract

Message content associated with at least one message received by a message processing server is stored in association with the message processing server. The message content within an incoming message is compared with the stored message content. A determination is made as to whether the stored message content is duplicated by the message content associated with the incoming message. A duplicate message content management action is performed based upon the determination as to whether the stored message content is duplicated by the message content associated with the incoming message. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

storing, in association with a message processing server, original application-layer message content associated with at least one message received by the message processing server;
comparing incoming original application-layer message content within at least one incoming message with the stored original application-layer message content;
determining whether the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the incoming original application-layer message content associated with the at least one incoming message;
and performing a duplicate message content management action based upon the determination as to whether the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the incoming original application-layer message content associated with the at least one incoming message;
where storing, in association with the message processing server, the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message comprises:
calculating a message content integrity value comprising at least one of a checksum value and a cyclical redundancy check (CRC) value based upon the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message;
and
storing the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message in a memory at a location referenced by the message content integrity value;
and
where storing, in association with the message processing server, the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message comprises time stamping the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message with an arrival time and further comprising:
storing the arrival time with the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message;
and
discarding the stored original application-layer message content upon expiration of a configured expiration event for storage of message content.

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A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage device including a computer readable program, where the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

store, in association with a message processing server, original application-layer message content associated with at least one message received by the message processing server in a memory;
compare incoming original application-layer message content within at least one incoming message with the stored original application-layer message content;
determine whether the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the incoming original application-layer message content associated with the at least one incoming message;
and
perform a duplicate message content management action based upon the determination as to whether the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the incoming original application-layer message content associated with the at least one incoming message;
where, in causing the computer to store, in association with the message processing server, the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message, the computer readable program when executed on the computer causes the computer to:
calculate a message content integrity value comprising at least one of a checksum value and a cyclical redundancy check (CRC) value based upon the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message;
and
store the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message in the memory at a location referenced by the message content integrity value;
where, in causing the computer to store, in association with the message processing server, the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message, the computer readable program when executed on the computer causes the computer to time stamp the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message with an arrival time;
and
where the computer readable program when executed on the computer further causes the computer to:
store the arrival time with the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message in the memory;
and
discard the stored original application-layer message content upon expiration of a configured expiration event for storage of message content.

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A system, comprising:

a memory;
and
a processor programmed to:
store, in association with a message processing server, original application-layer message content associated with at least one message received by the message processing server in the memory;
compare incoming original application-layer message content within at least one incoming message with the stored original application-layer message content;
determine whether the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the incoming original application-layer message content associated with the at least one incoming message;
and
perform a duplicate message content management action based upon the determination as to whether the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the incoming original application-layer message content associated with the at least one incoming message;
where, in being programmed to store, in association with the message processing server, the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one message received by the message processing server in the memory, the processor is programmed to:
calculate a message content integrity value comprising at least one of a checksum value and a cyclical redundancy check (CRC) value based upon the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message;
and
store the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message in the memory at a location referenced by the message content integrity value;
and
where, in being programmed to store, in association with the message processing server, the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one message received by the message processing server in the memory, the processor is programmed to time stamp the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message with an arrival time;
and
where the processor is further programmed to:
store the arrival time with the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message in the memory;
and
discard the stored original application-layer message content upon expiration of a configured expiration event for storage of message content.

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A system, comprising:

a memory;
and
a processor programmed to:
calculate a message content integrity value comprising at least one of a checksum value and a cyclical redundancy check (CRC) value based upon original application-layer message content associated with at least one message received by a message processing server;
time stamp the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message with an arrival time;
store the arrival time with the original application-layer message content associated with the at least one received message in the memory at a location referenced by the message content integrity value;
identify an application-layer message content payload area associated with at least one incoming message;
compare application-layer message content within the application-layer message content payload area associated with the at least one incoming message with the stored original application-layer message content;
determine whether a specific data pattern associated with the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the application-layer message content within the application-layer message content payload area associated with the at least one incoming message;
in response to a determination that the at least one incoming message comprises duplicated application-layer message content, at least one of:
discard at least one of the at least one incoming message and the stored original application-layer message content;
and
report that the stored original application-layer message content is duplicated by the application-layer message content within the application-layer message content payload area associated with the at least one incoming message;
and
in response to a determination that the at least one incoming message does not comprise duplicated application-layer message content, at least one of:
process the application-layer message content within the application-layer message content payload area associated with the at least one incoming message;
and
forward the at least one incoming message to another device;
and
discard the stored original application-layer message content upon expiration of a configured expiration event for storage of message content if the stored original application-layer message content has not been discarded in response to the determination that the at least one incoming message comprises duplicated application-layer message content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/430,182Filed 27 Apr 2009
Published: US 2010/0274857 A128 Oct 2010
Granted: 29 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 11/08
Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance: error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation, e.g. by using…
H04L 67/142
Session management: managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
H04L 67/02
Protocols: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
H04L 69/40
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass: for…

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