Patent ID: 7627639

Claim:
A method for performing an operation on a publish/subscribe message, the method comprising the steps of: a client subscribing to receive messages from a publish/subscribe service by subscribing to a channel of the publish/subscribe service by a User Interface (UI) function at a client computer; receiving by said publish/subscribe service a topic message associated with a subscribed topic to be published from a content provider for blind publication to a plurality of subscriber systems having selected the topic of said topic message; concurrently publishing the received topic message to said plurality of subscribers over said subscribed channel of said publish/subscribe service, said published topic message from said publish/subscribe service channel being identical for each of said subscribers; receiving at the client computer said topic message published by the publish/subscribe service channel; providing the received message to a client application program running at the client computer; blocking said published topic message from further processing by said client unless said topic message is directed to a sub-topic selected by a UI filtering function of the client computer by said subscriber, each of said plurality of subscribers selecting respective sub-topics for each respective subscriber; and the application program performing a first operation on the received message for accepting the unblocked topic message published by said publish/subscribe service channel; said first operation including any one of the steps of; presenting the message information to a user; saving the message to storage; accessing a web service based on information in the received message; authorizing the subscription; executing an application identified by the message; overriding a message function; transforming the message media format; or forwarding the message to another node; and the said method comprising the further steps of performing a Boolean operation on text fields of the message; and initiating the first operation based on the results of the Boolean operation.