Patent ID: 8850451
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of subscribing for application messages in a multicast messaging environment, the method comprising: requesting, by a message receiving device, a stream administration server to initialize a message subscription for application messages related to a topic from a message sending device, wherein said requesting comprises transmitting to the stream administration server a request that indicates the topic and security credentials of the message receiving device for the stream administration server to authenticate and authorize the message receiving device; receiving, in the message receiving device from the stream administration server, a data communications endpoint that at least indicates a multicast network address for a multicast message stream from the message sending device; beginning to listen, by the message receiving device, for the application messages at the data communications endpoint; and transmitting, by the message receiving device only after beginning to listen for the application messages related to the topic, to the stream administration server a notification that notifies the message sending device to publish the application messages to the multicast network address.