Patent ID: 6347330
Filing Date: 2002-02-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a server having a plurality of clients coupled to said server at client nodes, said server coupled to a plurality of receivers, wherein event messages may be generated relating to said client nodes, a method for dynamically selectively distributing said client node event messages to particular ones of said receivers, in response to a selective enabling/disabling of client events to each said receiver, comprising the steps of:upon opening a session of a client node, determining said selectively enabled one to many events mapped to one to many receivers relating to said client node; dynamically updating said determined selectively enabled one to many events mapped to one to many receivers relating to said client node upon said selective enabling/disabling occurring during said session of said client node; and upon occurrence of an event message relating to a client node, distributing said event message to ones of said receivers having been selectively enabled for said event in said determining and said dynamically updating steps.