MESSAGE MULTICAST METHOD AND COMPUTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a message transmitting function reflected with 'taste' concerning a transmission destination agent designated by a user and the policy of a market to be operated by the agent. SOLUTION: This method executes a step for receiving the information of the preferential transmission destination designated by the user and a message through a message monitor 5 when multicasting the message to the agent, transmission destination determination step for determining any one of agents 7, 9 and 11 to transmit the message while referring to the information of the preferential transmission destination designated by the user and step for transmitting the message to the agent determined as the transmission destination. This information of the preferential transmission destination designated by the user is information expressing the 'taste' of the user and expressed with an agent name and priority (or weight), for example. Besides, it is also considerable the transmission destination determination step includes a step for referring to message policy data for specifying the priority of agents capable of being the transmission destination.