Patent ID: 9223865
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: publishing with a client computer, from a first Web Service ServiceGroup, at least one topic, said first Web Service ServiceGroup having a Web Service Resource being defined by one or more properties associated with the at least one topic and being a member of group of a plurality of Web Service ServiceGroups, wherein the plurality of Web Service ServiceGroups are connected to each other by subscriptions to topics of individual Web Service ServiceGroups of the group; notifying, with the client computer, a second Web Service ServiceGroup of one or more values of said one or more properties, said second Web Service ServiceGroup having subscribed to said at least one topic published by said first Web Service ServiceGroup, said second Web Service ServiceGroup being a member of the group and connected to said first Web Service ServiceGroup; creating, with the client computer, one or more index entities for each of the one or more properties such that each of the one or more index entities is associated with a corresponding property and stores for that property a property value and an indication of an instance of a connected Web Service ServiceGroup that is a source of the property value; notifying, with the client computer, the second Web Service ServiceGroup of a change to the property value in at least one of the one or more index entities; and propagating the change to the property value to connected Web Service ServiceGroups of the group via a chain of subscriptions extending from the first Web Service ServiceGroup through successively connected Web Service ServiceGroups of the group.