Patent ID: 11888952
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A computer-implemented method to route data in a publish-subscribe messaging environment, comprising:
receiving, by a message broker, topic metadata at a first instance according to a first interval into a predefined fixed topic, wherein the topic metadata comprise information about a list of topics published by an agent running in an endpoint and each topic in the list of topics corresponds to an application running in the endpoint;
obtaining, by a topic list subscriber, the list of topics from the message broker by subscribing to the predefined fixed topic;
assigning, by a subscription manager, topics in the list of topics to a first subscriber and a second subscriber according to a criteria;
receiving, by the message broker, data associated with the applications from the agent according to a second interval; and
routing, by the message broker, the received data corresponding to the topics to the first and second subscribers in accordance with the topics assigned to the first and second subscribers, wherein at least one topic assigned to the first subscriber is different from the topics assigned to the second subscriber.