Abstract: A group communication service is adapted for multi-point to multi-point communication. Identical message streams are received by a tier of processing servers from a tier of sources. The processing servers deliver the message streams to a tier of destinations. The group communication service enables the processing servers to deal with newly added message streams and deleted message streams while preserving total ordering.

Abstract: A group communication service maintains synchronization limiting the group to the processing entities that receive a plurality of source message streams from sources outside the group and transmit delivery message streams to destinations that are outside the group. Synchronization of message ordering and other state synchronization directives are communicated from a leader exclusively to other group members. Once having declared themselves to be synchronized and active by a reply protocol message, which is an opaque object and is interpreted by an application layer, the processing entities independently process the source message streams in accordance with the order specified in the directives, without requiring additional sequencing information from another processing entity.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: receiving an application message in a transport engine of a message receiving device from a message transmitting device, the application message having a message contents label and a collision indicator, the message contents label representing contents of the application message, the collision indicator specifying whether the message contents label represents different contents in at least one other application message; determining, by the transport engine, whether contents of the application message satisfy a transport layer constraint in dependence upon the message contents label; providing, by the transport engine, the application message and the collision indicator to messaging middleware of the message receiving device if the contents of the application message satisfy the transport layer constraint; and administering the application message, by the me

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: establishing, in a transport engine of a subscribing client device, a transport layer constraint on application messages to be received by the subscribing client device from a feed adapter; receiving, in the transport engine of the subscribing client device from the feed adapter, an application message; determining, by the transport engine of the subscribing client device, whether contents of the application message satisfy the transport layer constraint; and administering the application message, by the transport engine of the subscribing client device, in dependence upon whether the contents of the application message satisfy the transport layer constraint.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: receiving, in a transport engine of a message receiving device from an active message sending device, active transport packets on an active message stream established from the active message sending device to the message receiving device, the active message sending device encapsulating active application messages in the active transport packets; identifying, by the transport engine, a missing active application message from the active message sending device; and requesting, by the transport engine from a backup message sending device, transmission of a backup application message that corresponds to the missing active application message, the backup message sending device encapsulating backup application messages in backup transport packets for transmission on a backup message stream, each backup application message representing a duplicate of a

Abstract: A method for migrating data transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver over a first stream to a second stream in a reliable multicast system is provided. The method comprises transmitting a first message from the transmitter to the receiver over the first stream to notify the receiver that a first data flow transmitted on the first stream will be transmitted on the second stream. The transmitter transmits a second message to the receiver over the second stream after a second threshold has expired. The receiver tunes to the second stream based on the second message. The transmitter transmits a third message to the receiver over the first stream after a third threshold has expired to notify the receiver that transmission of the first data flow over the first stream will be terminated. The transmitter then transmits a fourth message from the transmitter to the receiver over the second stream after a fourth threshold has expired.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for synchronizing an active feed adapter and a backup feed adapter in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter, the active message stream capable of communicating active application messages; brokering, by the server, establishment of a backup message stream to the client device from a backup feed adapter, the backup message stream capable of communicating backup application messages; receiving an active feed adapter state in backup messaging middleware of the backup adapter from active messaging middleware of the active adapter; determining, by the backup feed adapter, whether a backup feed adapter state is synchronized with the active feed adapter state; and administering, by the backup feed adapter, operation of the backup adapter in dependence upon the determining.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using redundant message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter, the active message stream capable of communicating active application messages; brokering, by the server, establishment of a backup message stream to the subscribing client device from a backup feed adapter, the backup message stream capable of communicating backup application messages representing duplicates of the active messages; receiving the active messages in messaging middleware of the subscribing client device; receiving, in response to a failover, the backup messages in the messaging middleware; and administering, by the messaging middleware, the backup messages in dependence upon an active stream source identifier, an active stream source sequence number, a backup stream source ide

Abstract: Selecting application messages from redundant feed adapters for application-level data processing in a high speed, low latency data communications environment, including brokering establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter; brokering establishment of a backup message stream to the subscribing client device from a backup feed adapter; receiving active transport packets in a transport engine of the subscribing client device from the active feed adapter; receiving and buffering backup transport packets; identifying a missing active transport packet; determining whether a corresponding backup transport packet for the missing active transport packet has been received from the backup transport adapter; and replacing the missing active transport packet with the corresponding backup transport packet for further data processing if the corresponding backup transport packet for the missing active transport packet has been received.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using a message stream in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter; receiving, in a transport engine of the subscribing client device from the active feed adapter on an active message stream, active application messages encapsulated in active transport packets; receiving, by the transport engine from the active feed adapter, an active transport packet containing an active mapping; identifying, by the transport engine in dependence upon active sequence numbers, a missing active transport packet; identifying, by the transport engine, missing active application messages of the missing active transport packet in dependence upon the active mapping; and requesting, by the transport engine, transmission of the missing active application messages from the active feed adapter

Abstract: A publish/subscribe system includes a publisher and multiple subscribers. The published includes a packet generator to generate a packet with at least one of: a fixed length flow label labeling a message or a message bundle and a fixed length node label labeling at least one message bundle and indicating at least one of the nodes of a topic tree to which the flow label belongs. Each received includes a user selection data holder and a message selector. The data holder stores a selection of topics of interest to a user from the topic tree. The message selector receives a packet having a header and data, determines which flow and/or node labels are incorporated in the header and accepts the data if the user selection data holder indicates that the labels within the header are of interest to the user.

Abstract: A method for facilitating secured data processing, the method includes generating, for each client out of at least two clients, a private key, and a public key; and storing at least the private keys at highly secured entity; whereas the highly secured entity is operable to utilize at least a the private key to perform public key infrastructure processing.