Routing of messages in a data processing system

摘要

A data processing system in which data is routed by way of a network of routing points. Each routing point receives input connection data from an initiator or a preceding routing point, and produces output connection data for passing to a subsequent routing point of final destination. Each routing point has a routing table comprising an unordered set of entries, each entry comprising:a) a matching rule for input connection data,b) a context rule,c) a destination, andd) a generation rule for output connection data.