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

Claim 0:
1. A system in a publish-subscribe messaging environment, comprising:
a processor; and
memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises:
a message broker to receive 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;
a topic list subscriber that subscribes to the predefined fixed topic and obtains the list of topics from the message broker; and
a subscription manager to assign topics in the list of topics to a first subscriber and a second subscriber according to a criteria, wherein the message broker receives data associated with the applications from the agent according to a second interval and routes 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, and wherein at least one topic assigned to the first subscriber is different from the topics assigned to the second subscriber.