| 摘要 |
Conflating a time-sensitive message prior to transmission to a subscriber. A computer-implemented method 100 to conflate a time-sensitive message prior to transmission of the time-sensitive message to a subscriber 102, 106, the method comprising: providing a queue 118 comprising at least one time-sensitive message to be transmitted to a client 104, 108; receiving a further time-sensitive message for transmission to the client; searching the queue for a time-sensitive message related to the further time-sensitive message; and if a related time-sensitive message is identified in the queue, generating a conflated message from the further time-sensitive message and the identified time-sensitive message. The arrangement is particularly embodied to be employed at a server/broker 116 of a publish/subscribe system wherein the broker receives content from publishers to forward to interested/subscribed clients/subscribers 102, 106, 104, 108. The arrangement is directed to avoid sending messages that are not yet sent to the interested subscribers/clients that have already become out of date due to newly received messages/content superseding the messages in the brokers/servers queue 120. The arrangement may involve nullifying the earlier superseded message in the queue or may involve forming a combined message of the content of the earlier message and the newly received message. The position in the queue of the earlier message may be taken by the newly received message. The arrangement is directed to save bandwidth in not sending obsolete data to subscribers and is particularly relevant for scenarios where the information changes quickly such as stock prices, currency markets, online game location, betting, news/sports, financial etc wherein content is continually/regularly updated. Finding/locating a related earlier time-sensitive may involve identifying messages with the same topic. |
