diff --git a/include/ndn-cpp/face.hpp b/include/ndn-cpp/face.hpp
index c7e0826..4071501 100644
--- a/include/ndn-cpp/face.hpp
+++ b/include/ndn-cpp/face.hpp
@@ -142,19 +142,36 @@
   {
     node_.removeRegisteredPrefix(registeredPrefixId);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * @brief Publish data packet
+   *
+   * This method can be called to satisfy the incoming Interest or to put Data packet into the cache
+   * of the local NDN forwarder
+   */
+  void
+  put(const Data &data)
+  {
+    node_.put(data);
+  }
   
   /**
    * Process any data to receive or call timeout callbacks.
-   * This is non-blocking and will return immediately if there is no data to receive.
-   * You should repeatedly call this from an event loop, with calls to sleep as needed so that the loop doesn't use 100% of the CPU.
+   *
+   * This call will block forever (default timeout == 0) to process IO on the face.
+   * To exit, one expected to call face.shutdown() from one of the callback methods.
+   *
+   * If timeout is specified, then processEvents will exit after this timeout, if not stopped earlier with face.shutdown().
+   * The call can be called repeatedly, if desired.
+   *
    * @throw This may throw an exception for reading data or in the callback for processing the data.  If you
    * call this from an main event loop, you may want to catch and log/disregard all exceptions.
    */
   void 
-  processEvents()
+  processEvents(Milliseconds timeout = 0)
   {
     // Just call Node's processEvents.
-    node_.processEvents();
+    node_.processEvents(timeout);
   }
 
   /**