MESSAGE BROKER PROVIDING A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SERVICE AND METHOD OF PROCESSING MESSAGES IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Provided is a message broker supporting a publish/subscribe service. Thebrokeris adapted to identify characteristics of the content of messages receivedfrom publisherapplication programs and to use the identification of message contentcharacteristics todetermine which of a set of message handler modules to pass the message to.Theselected message handler module processes the message and then one or morederived messages are sent to subscribers for which this message type ormessagecontent has been requested. One or more message handler modules are preferablymultimedia processing modules and they are selected in response toidentification ofparticular multimedia types within the message content.