System and method for enabling real-time eventing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12580883-B2
Application number	US-202117305047-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2021
Priority date	Jun 25, 2010
Publication date	Mar 17, 2026
Grant date	Mar 17, 2026

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 comprising: handling one or more configuration attributes associated with an event message after the event message has been published by a publisher, the handling of the one or more configuration attributes including passing the event message to a plurality of delegate URIs configured to add event metadata to the event message, or, remove or modify event metadata previously associated with the event message, wherein a configuration attribute of the one or more configuration attributes determines whether the plurality of delegate URIs process the event message and event metadata sequentially or in parallel; accessing the event metadata associated with the event message; based on a matching of the event metadata to one or more values, passing the event message to an additional delegate URI, the additional delegate URI automatically updating metadata associated with the event message, the updating of the metadata causing the event message to be filtered out from at least one subscriber from a plurality of subscribers to the event message based on an evaluation of the updated event metadata against one or more criteria previously provided by the at least one subscriber; and distributing the event message to the plurality of subscribers excluding the at least one filtered out subscriber.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the evaluation of the event metadata includes determining that the event metadata does not include one or more of a category, a tag, a location, a time, an author, a media type, a language, or a source specified by the at least one subscriber.

3 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising conditionally enabling one or more event attributes associated with the event message based on the event metadata.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more event attributes include one or more of a routing attribute, a delegate attribute, or a webhook attribute.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the filtering is performed by an event proxy server and the distributing of the event message is performed by a message broker.

6 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising categorizing the event message.

7 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the categorizing of the event message is performed by using a delegate to perform the categorizing automatically through regular expression analysis.

8 . A method comprising:
handling one or more configuration attributes associated with an event message after the event message has been published by a publisher, the handling of the one or more configuration attribute attributes including passing the event message to a plurality of delegate URIs configured to add event metadata to the event message, or remove or modify event metadata previously associated with the event, wherein a configuration attribute of the one or more configuration attributes determines whether the plurality of delegate URIs process the event message and event metadata sequentially or in parallel; accessing the event metadata associated with the event message; based on a matching of the event metadata to one or more values, passing the event message to an additional delegate URI, the additional delegate URI automatically updating metadata associated with the event message, the updating of the metadata causing the event message to be filtered out from at least one subscriber from a plurality of subscribers to the event message based on an evaluation of the updated event metadata against one or more criteria previously provided by the at least one subscriber; and distributing the event message to the plurality of subscribers excluding the at least one filtered out subscriber.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the evaluation of the event metadata includes determining that the event metadata does not include one or more of a category, a tag, a location, a time, an author, a media type, a language, or a source specified by the at least one subscriber.

10 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising conditionally enabling one or more event attributes associated with the event message based on the event metadata.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the one or more event attributes include one or more of a routing attribute, a delegate attribute, or a webhook attribute.

12 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the filtering is performed by an event proxy server and the distributing of the event message is performed by a message broker.

13 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising categorizing the event message.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the categorizing of the event message is performed by using a delegate to perform the categorizing automatically through regular expression analysis.

15 . 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:
handling one or more configuration attributes associated with an event message after the event message has been published by a publisher, the handling of the one or more configuration attributes including passing the event message to a plurality of delegate URIs configured to add event metadata to the event message, or, remove or modify event metadata previously associated with the event message, wherein a configuration attribute of the one or more configuration attributes determines whether the plurality of delegate URIs process the event message and event metadata sequentially or in parallel; accessing the event metadata associated with the event message; based on a matching of the event metadata to one or more values, passing the event message to an additional delegate URI, the additional delegate URI automatically updating metadata associated with the event message, the updating of the metadata causing the event message to be filtered out from at least one subscriber from a plurality of subscribers to the event message, based on an evaluation of the updated event metadata against one or more criteria previously provided by the at least one subscriber; and distributing the event message to the plurality of subscribers excluding the at least one filtered out subscriber.

16 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the evaluation of the event metadata includes determining that the event metadata does not include one or more of a category, a tag, a location, a time, an author, a media type, a language, or a source specified by the at least one subscriber.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , further comprising conditionally enabling one or more event attributes associated with the event message based on the event metadata.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the one or more event attributes include one or more of a routing attribute, a delegate attribute, or a webhook attribute.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the filtering is performed by an event proxy server and the distributing of the event message is performed by a message broker.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , further comprising categorizing the event messag

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