Resource deployment based on conditions

• US 10,228,933 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2015
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Fortune, Erik, Hawkins, Rylan, Constable, Peter G., Chue, Sunggook, Chi, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Sough, S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Ben C
• Application Number:
  US14/627,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20150234653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

Architecture that facilitates the package partitioning of application resources based on conditions, and the package applicability based on the conditions. An index is created for a unified lookup of the available resources. At build time of an application, the resources are indexed and determined to be applicable based on the conditions. The condition under which the resource is applicable is then used to automatically partition the resource into an appropriate package. Each resource package then becomes applicable under the conditions in which the resources within it are applicable, and is deployed to the user if the user merits the conditions (e.g., an English user will receive an English package of English strings, but not a French package). Before the application is run, the references to the resources are merged and can be used to do appropriate lookup of what resources are available.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

identifying, during a build of an application, conditions under which resources are applicable to a build of the application, the resources including variants for use by the application in particular contexts;

creating an index that enumerates the resources, references to the resources, metadata corresponding to the resources, and the conditions under which the resources are applicable to the build of the application, wherein the index is further to enable detection of a change in the at least one resource, enforce constraints on the at least one resource, enforce licensing, and enforce authentication based at least in part on the metadata;

recognizing tokens in the metadata enumerated in the index to find the resources that meet applicability information of a resource package for the application; and

automatically partitioning the resources into the resource package for use by the application at runtime based at least in part on the conditions and metadata in the index, the resource package including at least one reference to at least one of the resources based at least in part on at least one of the conditions matching at least one other of the conditions of one other of the resources in the resource package.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining attributes of a current runtime context and comparing the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for the resource package.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a new resource package is created when no resource has conditions that match other resources in the package.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource package is deployed based on the conditions.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the references to the resources in the resource package are merged before the resources are accessed at application runtime, and the merged references are used to lookup available resources.

6. A computer-implemented resource management system, comprising:

at least one processor;

one or more memory devices having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that are executable by the at least one processor to perform operations comprising;

identifying, at a build time of an application, at least one condition under which at least one resource is applicable to a build of the application;

generator, at the build time of the application, an index indicating the at least one condition, the at least one resource, and metadata corresponding to the at least one resource, wherein the indexing component is further to enable detection of a change in the at least one resource, enforce constraints on the at least one resource, enforce licensing, and enforce authentication based at least in part on the metadata;

automatically partitioning the at least one resource indicated in the index into at least one resource package for use by the application based at least in part on the at least one condition and the metadata, the at least one resource package including a reference to the at least one resource based at least in part on the at least one condition matching at least one other condition of one other resource in the at least one resource package; and

recognizing, at a runtime of the application, tokens in the metadata to find applicable resources that meet specific applicability information of the at least one resource package.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise a determining attributes of current runtime context and to compare the attributes to applicability information to find associated conditions for the at least one resource package.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein said partitioning comprises merging references to applicable resources in the at least one resource package before the applicable resources are accessed at application runtime.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein a new resource package is created when the at least one condition does not match any conditions of other resources in the at least one resource package.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one resource package is deployed to the application based at least in part on the least one condition under which the at least one resource is applicable to the application.

11. The computer-implemented resource management system of claim 6, wherein the at least one processor is resident on a server.

12. The computer-implemented resource management system of claim 11, wherein the server is accessible over a network.

13. The computer-implemented resource management system of claim 6, wherein the at least one processor is resident on multiple networked computing devices.

14. A memory device having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

identifying conditions under which resources are applicable to a build of an application at a build time of the application, the resources including variants for use by the application in particular contexts;

creating an index that enumerates the resources during the build time of the application, references to the resources, metadata corresponding to the resources, and the conditions under which the resources are applicable to the build of the application, wherein the index is further to enable detection of a change in the at least one resource, enforce constraints on the at least one resource, enforce licensing, and enforce authentication based at least in part on the metadata;

recognizing tokens in the metadata in the index to find the resources that meet applicability information of a resource package for the application during a run time of the application; and

partitioning the resources into the resource package for use by the application based at least in part on the conditions and the metadata in the index, the resource package including at least one reference to at least one of the resources based at least in part on at least one of the conditions matching at least one other of the conditions of one other of the resources in the resource package.

15. The memory device of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise determining attributes of a current runtime context and comparing the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for the resource package.

16. The memory device of claim 14, wherein a new resource package is created when no resource has conditions that match other resources in the package.

17. The memory device of claim 14, wherein the resource package is deployed based on the conditions.

18. The memory device of claim 14, wherein the processing device comprises a server.

19. The memory device of claim 14, wherein the processing device comprises a server.

20. The memory device of claim 19, wherein the server is accessible over a network.