Modular system for holistic data transmission across an enterprise

• US 10,270,840 B2
• Filed: 01/01/2015
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Cismas, Sorin N., Kurian, Manu Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Minh Chau
• Application Number:
  US14/588,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20160197979A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,573 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A technology/operating system-agnostic and protocol-agnostic service delivery system that includes a unified means data movement/transfer. By unifying the delivery of such services the need to deploy numerous different technology/OS-specific and/or protocol-specific applications/services conventionally used to provide such services is obviated. The unified nature of the system, not only provides for comprehensive delivery of services, such as data movement amongst all the servers in the enterprise'"'"'s network but also provides for unified management of the services delivered, such as governance control over the services, unified tracking of services delivered, unified provisioning of updates/revisions to modules, and auditing processes for services delivered.

Claims

1. A system for uniform delivery and management of services within an enterprise, the system comprising:

a computing platform including;

a memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon;

a communication device configured to establish operative communication with a plurality of server devices via communication network; and

at least one processor in communication with the memory device and the communication device and configured to execute the computer-readable program code to;

determine that a data connection is entitled between a plurality of the server devices based on a compatible rating of the servers, wherein the rating is based on a type of data that a server is authorized to transmit and receive and a geographic location of a server, wherein type of data includes one or more of confidential data, proprietary data and public data,

determine that data transfer is entitled between a plurality of data file transfer applications running on the plurality of servers, wherein at least two of the plurality of data file applications deploy disparate protocols for conducting file transfers,

in response to determining the data connection is entitled between the plurality of servers and the data transfer applications running on the plurality of servers, establish protocol-agnostic data connections between the plurality of servers for data transfer, and

initiate, over the established data connections, transfer of data files between the plurality of data file transfer applications.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable program code to provide legacy applications with web services capabilities.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable program code to provide legacy applications with a web server.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable program code to provide message brokering.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable program code to provide data archiving.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable program code to present single Graphical User Interface (GUI) views configured to allow the user to manage security, governance, auditing, reporting and provisioning of the computer-readable program code.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-readable program code to provide a protocol for the data connections between the plurality of servers.

8. A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising;

a first set of codes for causing a computer to;

(i) determine that a data connection is entitled between a plurality of servers in an enterprise computing network based on a compatible rating of the servers, wherein the rating is based on a type of data that a server is authorized to transmit and receive and a geographic location of a server, wherein type of data includes one or more of confidential data, proprietary data and public data,

(ii) determine that data transfer is entitled between a plurality of data file transfer applications running on the plurality of servers, wherein at least two of the plurality of data file applications deploy disparate protocols for conducting file transfers,

(iii) in response to determining the data connection is entitled between the plurality of servers and the data transfer applications running on the plurality of servers, establish protocol-agnostic data connections between the plurality of servers for data transfer, and

(iv) initiate, over the established data connections, transfer of data files between the plurality of data file transfer applications;

a second set of codes for causing the computer to provide message brokering;

a third set of codes for causing the computer to provide legacy applications with web services capabilities and a web browser; and

a fourth set of codes for causing the computer to provide uniform management of security, governance, auditing, reporting and provisioning of the data connections, the message brokering and the web services capabilities.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer-readable medium further comprises a fifth set of codes for causing the computer to provide data archiving.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the fourth set of codes is further configured to provide uniform management of security, governance, auditing, reporting and provisioning of the modules included in the service delivery application by presenting single Graphical User Interface (GUI) views that allow the user to manage security, governance, auditing, reporting and provisioning of the modules.