Patent ID: 6931405
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computer system that includes one or more event sources and one or more event consumers, a method for conditionally processing events fired by the one or more event sources based on subscriptions received by one or more event consumers, the method comprising the following: an act of receiving an event notification from an event source, for an event structured in accordance with a schema definition; an act of receiving one or more subscriptions from one or more event consumers, wherein the act of receiving one or more subscriptions from one or more event consumers comprises an act of receiving a subscription request from a requesting entity for event notifications having particular characteristics to be sent to a receiving event consumer; an act of matching the event notification against the one or more subscriptions received from the one or more event consumers; and a step for filtering the event notification based on the one or more subscriptions.