System and method for enabling real-time eventing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12289282-B2
Application number	US-202117302124-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2021
Priority date	Jun 25, 2010
Publication date	Apr 29, 2025
Grant date	Apr 29, 2025

Abstract

A method and system for real-time eventing including interacting with at least one configuration attribute according to instructions specified through an application programming interface (API); adding subscribers for an event channel; generating an event from operation of an application; publishing the event message to the event channel on an event router; processing the event message according to the at least one configuration attribute; identifying a subscriber to the event channel; and sending the event from the event router to the subscriber.

First claim

We claim:

1. A system comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer memories;
a set of instructions stored in the one or more computer memories, the set of instructions configuring the one or more computer processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
receiving, from a publisher, a publication of an event message;
determining a route for the event message based on a set of attributes, the set of attributes associated with an event channel corresponding to the publication of the event message, the set of attributes being configurable via an Application Programming Interface (API) during real-time processing of the event message, the set of attributes including a processing attribute and a set of configuration attributes, the processing attribute determining an order of processing for the set of configuration attributes, one or more of the set of configuration attributes being conditionally enabled based on metadata added to the event message, the one or more of the set of configuration attributes including a delegate URI attribute identifying a delegate application configured to perform the adding of the metadata to the event message; and
distributing the event message using the route.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the route includes determining that the event message is to be routed to one or more additional event channels.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more additional event channels include one or more parent event channels associated with the event channel and the distributing of the event message includes implementing hierarchical publishing of the event message across the one or more parent event channels.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more additional channels include one or more alias event channels and the distributing of the event message includes implementing one or more routing aliases.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the determining of the route is further based on an additional set of attributes, the additional set of attributes corresponding to the additional event channel.

6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the determining of the route is further based on one or more additional sets of attributes, the one or more additional sets of attributes corresponding to the one or more additional event channels.

7. A method comprising:
receiving, from a publisher, a publication of an event message;
determining a route for the event message based on a set of attributes, the set of attributes associated with an event channel corresponding to the publication of the event message, the set of attributes being configurable via an Application Programming Interface (API) during real-time processing of the event message, the set of attributes including a processing attribute and a set of configuration attributes, the processing attribute determining an order of processing for the set of configuration attributes, one or more of the set of configuration attributes being conditionally enabled based on metadata added to the event message, the one or more of the set of configuration attributes including a delegate URI attribute identifying a delegate application configured to perform the adding of the metadata to the event message; and
distributing the event message using the route.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the determining of the route includes determining that the event message is to be routed to one or more additional event channels.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more additional event channels include one or more parent event channels associated with the event channel and the distributing of the event message includes implementing hierarchical publishing of the event message across the parent event channels.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more additional channels include one or more alias event channels and the distributing of the event message includes implementing one or more routing aliases.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the determining of the route is further based on an additional set of attributes, the additional set of attributes corresponding to the additional event channel.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the determining of the route is further based on one or more additional sets of attributes, the one or more additional sets of attributes corresponding to the one or more additional event channels.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by one or more computer processors, causes the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a publisher, a publication of an event message;
determining a route for the event message based on a set of attributes, the set of attributes associated with an event channel corresponding to the publication of the event message, the set of attributes being configurable via an Application Programming Interface (API) during real-time processing of the event message, the set of attributes including a processing attribute and a set of configuration attributes, the processing attribute determining an order of processing for the set of configuration attributes, one or more of the set of configuration attributes being conditionally enabled based on metadata added to the event message, the one or more of the set of configuration attributes including a delegate URI attribute identifying a delegate application configured to perform the adding of the metadata to the event message; and
distributing the event message using the route.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the determining of the route includes determining that the event message is to be routed to one or more additional event channels.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the one or more additional event channels include one or more parent event channels associated with the event channel and the distributing of the event message includes implementing hierarchical publishing of the event message across the parent event channels.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the one or more additional channels include one or more alias event channels and the distributing of the event message includes implementing one or more routing aliases.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the determining of the route is further based on an additional set of attributes, the additional set of attributes corresponding to the additional event channel.

Assignees

• Twilio Inc

Inventors

• Lawson Jeffrey
• Wolthuis John
• Cooke Evan
• Comer Jeffrey

Classifications

• H04L51/214

  using selective forwarding · CPC title

• H04L51/212

  using filtering or selective blocking · CPC title

• G06F2209/544

  Remote · CPC title

• G06F9/542 Primary

  Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications · CPC title

• H04L51/04

  Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] · CPC title