Patent ID: 8155119

Claim:
A method for intermediate message invalidation, the method comprising: a computer receiving, in an intermediate message validation service, a message to be forwarded to a device to administer at least one value of an attribute of the device; the computer determining, by the intermediate message validation service, that the message is invalid, including: the computer determining differences between the structure of a packet of the message and a predefined proper packet structure, wherein the computer determining the differences between the structure of the packet of the message and the predefined proper packet structure comprises the computer counting the differences between the structure of the packet of the message and the predefined proper packet structure; and the computer determining that the differences between the structure of the packet of the message and the predefined proper packet structure exceed a threshold similarity requirement, the threshold similarity requirement defining one or more rules that compare a number of bits in the packet of the message to a number of bits in the predefined proper packet structure; the computer terminating, by the intermediate message validation service, the message including storing the message in a dead message queue; and the computer notifying a system administrator that the message is invalid, including providing access to the dead message queue to the system administrator.