Patent ID: 9553831
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, over a network at an adaptive publish/subscribe broker, a context-driven publication option from a publishing network device; presenting over the network the context-driven publication option to a subscribing network device; receiving over the network at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker a selection of a context-driven subscription from the subscribing network device, wherein the context-driven subscription comprises a plurality of publications, wherein at least one of the plurality of publications is a contextual publication to trigger publishing of related publications to the contextual publication to the subscribing network device such that the related publications are not published to the subscribing network device if received prior to the contextual publication and the related publications are published to the subscribing network device if received after the contextual publication; receiving a first related publication of the plurality of publications at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker prior to receiving the contextual publication; filtering the first related publication without publishing the first related publication to the subscribing network device and waiting for the contextual publication to be received by the publish/subscribe broker; receiving, at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker, the contextual publication of the plurality of publications configured for network management and operations; receiving a second related publication of the plurality of publications at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker after receiving the contextual publication, wherein the second related publication is a different publication than the contextual publication; and filtering the second related publication by publishing the second related publication to the subscribing network device in response to having previously received the contextual publication, wherein the second related publication would not have been published to the subscribing network device if the second related publication had been received at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker prior to the contextual publication.