Methods and systems for managing application configurations

• US 10,430,179 B1
• Filed: 03/07/2019
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Inventors: Kumar, Lokesh Vijay, Raju, Poornima Bagare
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Adam
• Application Number:
  US16/295,892
• Time in Patent Office: 208 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0703 Error or fault processing not based on redundancy, i.e. by taking additional measures to deal with the error or fault not making use of redundancy in operation, in hardware, or in data representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/26 Functional testing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3616 using software metrics
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3672 Test management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for managing a configuration of an application. A property of an application to update may be identified. A request to update the property to a change management process can be sent. The property of the application can be updated in a test environment. A test of the application with the updated property in the test environment can be identified as successful, and the request can be identified as approved. The property of the application can be updated in a database. A notification can be sent over a network to a computer system executing the application, where the notification causes the application to refresh the property by replacing the property with the updated property from the database without restarting or recreating the application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for managing a configuration of an application, comprising:

identifying a property of the application to update;

sending a request to update the property to a change management process of a change management environment;

causing the property of the application to be updated in a test environment;

identifying that a test of the application with the updated property in the test environment was successful, and that the request was approved by the change management process;

causing the property of the application to be updated in a database of an application configuration environment after identifying that the test was successful and that the request was approved; and

triggering a notification to be sent over a network to a computer system executing the application, the notification causing the application to refresh the property by replacing the property with the updated property from the database without restarting or recreating the application in response to a run environment causing the application to retrieve the updated property from the database over the network.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

causing information about properties of a new application to be stored in the database in response to receiving a request to register the new application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is sent over the network via an enterprise bus.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer system is a first computer system, and the change management process is implemented in a second computer system different from the first computer system.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the database is stored in the second computer system.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the notification is sent from the first computer system to the second computer system over the network via an enterprise bus.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the notification includes an address to the updated property, and the first computer system is further configured to retrieve the updated property from the database over the network based on the address.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer system is a first computer system, further comprising:

automatically causing, by a second computer system, the notification to be sent over the network to the first computer system in response to identifying that the test was successful and that the request has been approved.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying an indicator that the test of the application with the updated property was successful; and

displaying an indicator that the request was approved.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification includes an address to the updated property, and the notification causes the application to retrieve the updated property from the database over the network based on the address.

11. A system for managing a configuration of an application, comprising:

a memory storing instructions; and

a processor that, when executing the instructions, is configured to;

identify a property of the application to update;

send a request to update the property to a change management process of a change management environment;

cause the property of the application to be updated in a test environment;

identify that a test of the application with the updated property in the test environment was successful, and that the request was approved by the change management process;

cause the property of the application to be updated in a database of an application configuration environment after identifying that the test was successful and that the request was approved; and

trigger a notification to be sent over a network to a computer system executing the application, the notification causing the application to refresh the property by replacing the property with the updated property from the database without restarting or recreating the application in response to a run environment causing the application to retrieve the updated property from the database over the network.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

cause information about properties of a new application to be stored in the database in response to receiving a request to register the new application.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the notification is sent over the network via an enterprise bus.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the request to update the property is sent over the network to the change management process.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the notification includes an address to the updated property, and the notification causes the application to retrieve the updated property from the database over the network based on the address.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display an indicator that the test of the application with the updated property was successful; and

display an indicator that the request was approved.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the computer system is a first computer system, and the change management process is implemented in a second computer system different from the first computer system.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the notification includes an address to the updated property, and the first computer system is further configured to retrieve the updated property from the database over the network based on the address.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the notification is sent from the first computer system to the second computer system over the network via an enterprise bus.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the computer system is a first computer system that automatically causes, by a second computer system, the notification to be sent over the network to the first computer system in response to identifying that the test was successful and that the request has been approved.