US 9,544,255 B2Granted

Content based data routing

AssigneeIntegra SP Limited

InventorDavid Lawrence Levett

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Abstract

A method of routing data from a source to one or more clients over a network, where the data conforms to a structured meta-language; in which the routing is performed by a server applying rules to the data itself, and not any address accompanying the data, to determine where to route that data to. The present invention is predicated on the counter-intuitive insight that data does not need to be concealed within a data envelope and given an address label in order to be routed effectively and efficiently. Instead, routing can be performed on the actual content of a message by applying simple routing rules to the data itself by intelligent ‘routing’ servers within the network which can unpack data from their message envelopes and intelligently filter/combine them with data unpacked from other messages to achieve a routing function.

Claims41

Dependent claims

A method of routing data from multiple sources to multiple clients over a network comprising a routing server configured to perform routing of said data through the network, the routing being performed by the routing server applying rule-based filtering to the data, wherein the routing server routes data to the clients, the method including the following steps:

(a) unpacking the data content of multiple incoming messages from their respective message data envelopes, with the data content including tagged fields that allow rule based filtering to be applied using those tagged fields, wherein each said incoming message comprises at least a said envelope and a said data content and said unpacking comprises stripping the data content out of said respective message data envelopes, where the data content conforms to a structured meta-language;
(b) the routing server performing the rule based filtering using the tagged fields of the data content when querying the unpacked data content;
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(c) the routing server then combining the data content from multiple incoming messages previously sent for unpacking into one or more outgoing network messages to be routed by the routing server over the network to one or more said clients.

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Facts

Application: 13/716,505Filed 17 Dec 2012 · continuation
Priority: GB 0129381.07 Dec 2001
Published: US 2013/0110951 A12 May 2013
Granted: 10 Jan 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04L 67/63
Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and…: routing…
H04L 51/212
Monitoring or handling of messages: using filtering or selective blocking
H04L 69/329
Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions: in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
H04L
Digital communication

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PCT/GB02/05577Parent of this division · filed 9 Dec 2002
Application12/940,148Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Nov 2010
US 7,925,777 B2Parent of this division · filed 12 Apr 2011
Application13/252,700Parent of this continuation · filed 4 Oct 2011
US 2013/0110951 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 May 2013
US 8,359,403 B2Parent of this continuation
Application10/497,125Parent of this division
Application12/940,148Parent of this division
US 2005/0021838 A1Published application
US 2011/0047290 A1Published application
US 2012/0030297 A1Published application
US 9,544,255 B2This patent

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