METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING PUBLICATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS BASED IN PART ON CONTEXTUAL CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SUBSCRIPTIONS OR PUBLICATIONS

摘要

An apparatus may include a registrar configured to register one or more subscription parameters for each of a plurality of subscriptions and one or more publication parameters for each of a plurality of publications. Further, the apparatus may include a matcher configured to match the publications to the subscriptions based on the subscription parameters and the publication parameters. Additionally, the apparatus may include a parameter updater configured to update the subscription parameters or the publication parameters based on one or more contextual characteristics associated with the subscriptions or the publications. Also, a potential match determiner may form a potential match list including one or more pairs of the subscriptions and the publications based on the subscription parameters and the publication parameters. Accordingly, the potential match list may reduce the computational resources needed to match the publications to the subscriptions by only determining matches for those pairs of subscriptions and publications in the potential match list.