Patent 7500249 was granted and assigned to Sun Microsystems on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A network having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. The network includes an event channel adapted to transmit an event between a publisher node and a subscriber node within the network. The network also includes a filter to identify the event on the subscriber node. The network also includes an application on the subscriber node to receive the event according to the filter.