Patent ID: 8341279

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving data of a particular type at a first frequency at a node in a computer network; determining at the node that there is an interested subscriber for the data of the particular type, the interested subscriber desiring the data at a second frequency; computing a ratio between the second frequency at which the interested subscriber desires the data and the first frequency at which the data is received at the node; in response to the ratio between the second frequency at which the interested subscriber desires the data and the first frequency at which the data is received at the node being less than a configured threshold, activating buffered data publishing at the node, wherein buffered data publishing comprises: buffering the data, and transmitting a latest received data to the interested subscriber at the second frequency, wherein the latest received data is a last data received at the node, is all buffered data since a previous transmission, or is a configurable length rolling average of the buffered data; and in response to the ratio between the second frequency at which the interested subscriber desires the data and the first frequency at which the data is received at the node not being less than the configured threshold, transmitting the data to the interested subscriber at the first frequency.