System and methods for transaction-based process management

• US 10,387,197 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2018
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Worldpay, LLC (Fidelity National Information Services Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Worldpay, LLC (Fidelity National Information Services Incorporated)
• Inventors: Unrau, Jackson Andrew, McCarthy, Shawn Edward, Cook, Matthew Ray
• Primary Examiner(s): Swift, Charles M
• Application Number:
  US15/941,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20180225146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 508 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/466 Transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/48 Program initiating; Program switching, e.g. by interrupt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4806 Task transfer initiation or dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4843 by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5016 the resource being the memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

Systems and methods for transaction/file-based management of a plurality of processes associated with various jobs are provided. Through the management of discrete applications, a file distribution manager/scheduler orchestrates automated execution of different types of jobs. The processes executed for the various processes can vary based on job type, or other parameters.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of causing execution of at least one computer process on a computing system, the method comprising:

receiving, by a job management computing system, an indication of a first plurality of processing tasks associated with a first job type, wherein each of the first plurality of processing tasks is associated with a respective allocation of processing resources;

receiving, by the job management computing system, an indication of a second plurality of processing tasks associated with a second job type, wherein each of the second plurality of processing tasks is associated with a respective allocation of processing resources, wherein at least one of the first plurality of processing tasks is the same as one of the second plurality of processing tasks;

assigning, by the job management computing system, the first job type and the second job type into a job group, wherein the job group comprises a plurality of job types including the first job type and the second job type, and wherein the job management computing system is configured to execute one of the plurality of job types in the job group at a time;

receiving, by the job management computing system, an electronic file to initiate a job;

determining, by the job management computing system, a job type of the job based on one or more of;

a file type, a naming convention, or metadata of the electronic file;

based on determining that the job type of the job is the first job type, causing, by the job management computing system, the execution of the first plurality of processing tasks before the second plurality of processing tasks; and

based on determining that the job type of the job is the second job type, causing, by the job management computing system, the execution of the second plurality of processing tasks before the first plurality of processing tasks.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks comprises a first processing task, a second processing task, and a third processing task, wherein causing, by the management computer, the execution of the first plurality of processing tasks comprises:

causing one of the first processing task, a second processing task, and the third processing task to be executed based on a real-time availability of processing resources.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks identifies a sequence of processing tasks, and wherein causing, by the management computer, the execution of the first plurality of processing tasks comprises:

causing each of the first plurality of processing tasks to be sequentially completed based on the identified sequence.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein determining, by the job management computing system, the job type of the job is based on a naming convention of the electronic file.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring, by the job management computing system, the status of the first plurality of processing tasks;

causing, by the job management computing system, the execution of the second plurality of processing tasks after the first plurality of processing tasks are complete.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, comprising:

during the monitoring, by the job management computing system, of the status of the first plurality of processing tasks, monitoring, by the job management computer, the status of the second plurality of processing tasks.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a processing task schedule is associated with the first plurality of processing tasks.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein each of the first plurality of processing tasks comprises a respective parameter set.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks comprises a first processing task and a second processing task, wherein at least one parameter in a parameter set of a first processing task identifies that the second processing task is to be executed subsequent to the execution of the first processing task, the computer-implemented method comprising:

subsequent to causing the execution of the first processing task by the job management computing system, causing the second processing task to be executed based on the parameter set of the first processing task.

10. A job management computing system, the job management computing system comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed by a processor cause the processor to:

receive, by a job management computing system, an indication of a first plurality of processing tasks associated with a first job type, wherein each of the first plurality of processing tasks is associated with a respective allocation of processing resources;

store, by the job management computing system, in a data store an association between the first job type and the first plurality of processing tasks;

receive, by the job management computing system, an indication of a second plurality of processing tasks associated with a second job type, wherein each of the first plurality of processing tasks is associated with a respective allocation of processing resources, wherein at least one of the first plurality of processing tasks is the same as one of the second plurality of processing tasks;

store, by the job management computing system, in the data store an association between the second job type and the second plurality of processing tasks;

assign, by the job management computing system, the first job type and the second job type into a job group, wherein the job group comprises a plurality of job types including the first job type and the second job type, and wherein the job management computing system is configured to execute one of the plurality of job types in the job group at a time;

receive, by the job management computing system, an electronic file to initiate a job;

determine, by the job management computing system, a job type of the job based on one or more of;

a file type, a naming convention, or metadata of the electronic file;

based on determining that the job type of the job is the first job type, cause, by the job management computing system, the execution of the first plurality of processing tasks before the second plurality of processing tasks; and

based on determining that the job type of the job is the second job type, cause, by the job management computing system, the execution of the second plurality of processing tasks before the first plurality of processing tasks.

11. The job management computing system of claim 10, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks comprises a first processing task, a second processing task, and a third processing task, wherein the instructions cause the processor to execute one of the first processing task, a second processing task, and the third processing task based on processing resources.

12. The job management computing system of claim 10, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks identifies a sequence of processing tasks, and wherein the instructions cause the processor to execute each of the first plurality of processing tasks to be sequentially completed based on the identified sequence.

13. The job management computing system of claim 10, wherein the electronic file is received from a third party computing system.

14. The job management computing system of claim 10, wherein the instructions cause the processor to monitor the status of the first plurality of processing tasks.

15. The job management computing system of claim 10, wherein a first processing task schedule is associated with the first plurality of processing tasks.

16. The job management computing system of claim 15, wherein each of the plurality of processing tasks comprises a respective parameter set.

17. The job management computing system of claim 16, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks comprises a first processing task and a second processing task, wherein at least one parameter in a parameter set of a first processing task identifies that the second processing task is to be executed subsequent to the execution of the first processing task, wherein the instructions cause the processor to subsequent to causing the execution of the first processing task by the management computer, execute the second processing task based on the parameter set of the first processing task.

18. A job management computing system comprising:

one or more processors;

a data storage device comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising;

receiving, by the job management computing system, an indication of a first plurality of processing tasks associated with a first job type, wherein each of the first plurality of processing tasks is associated with a respective allocation of processing resources;

receiving, by the job management computing system, an indication of a second plurality of processing tasks associated with a second job type, wherein each of the second plurality of processing tasks is associated with a respective allocation of processing resources, wherein at least one of the first plurality of processing tasks is the same as one of the second plurality of processing tasks;

assigning, by the job management computing system, the first job type and the second job type into a job group, wherein the job group comprises a plurality of job types including the first job type and the second job type, and wherein the job management computing system is configured to execute one of the plurality of job types in the job group at a time;

receiving, by the job management computing system, an electronic file to initiate a job;

determining, by the job management computing system, a job type of the job based on one or more of;

a file type, a naming convention, or metadata of the electronic file;

based on determining that the job type of the job is the first job type, causing, by the job management computing system, the execution of the first plurality of processing tasks before the second plurality of processing tasks; and

based on determining that the job type of the job is the second job type, causing, by the job management computing system, the execution of the second plurality of processing tasks before the first plurality of processing tasks.

19. The job management computing system of claim 18, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks identifies a sequence of processing tasks, and wherein causing, by the job management computing system, the execution of the first plurality of processing tasks comprises:

causing each of the first plurality of processing tasks to be sequentially completed based on the identified sequence.

20. The job management computing system of claim 18, wherein the first plurality of processing tasks comprises a first processing task and a second processing task, wherein at least one parameter in a parameter set of a first processing task identifies that the second processing task is to be executed subsequent to the execution of the first processing task, wherein the electronic file causes the execution of the first processing task and/or the second processing task based on the parameter set of the first processing task.