Singularly hosted, enterprise managed, plural branded application services
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of providing singularly hosted, customer administered, plural vendor-branded distribution of locally run software, the method comprising:
- providing by a network accessible host, a data center including plural vendor-branded software for distribution over a network;
receiving a network request at the host, from an administered device associated in the data center with a customer identifier;
distributing software to the administered device, the software containing a branding presentation of a vendor associated in the data center with the customer identifier.
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Abstract
A plurality of separate customers can enter into separate agreements with a vendor who provides application services to the customer via provider. A plurality of vendors can sell services hosted by a single application service provider to different customers. The provider vendor-brands portions of the application services supplied to a customer. The vendor-brand presentation perceived by a customer is of the vendor who contracts to provide those services to the customer. Because of the vendor-branded presentation, a specific customer may be unaware that the provider is hosting the vendor-branded application service. A data center is used to provide information about administered software, customers and vendors.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of providing singularly hosted, customer administered, plural vendor-branded distribution of locally run software, the method comprising:
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providing by a network accessible host, a data center including plural vendor-branded software for distribution over a network;
receiving a network request at the host, from an administered device associated in the data center with a customer identifier;
distributing software to the administered device, the software containing a branding presentation of a vendor associated in the data center with the customer identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer-implemented application services provider method for hosting plural application service packages for plural application services provider vendors, the method comprising:
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providing a data center including plural hosted application service packages;
receiving at the data center, a software administration directive for a first administered device associated with a first customer, the software administration directive identifying at least two application service package selections for the first administered device;
receiving at the data center, a software administration directive for a second administered device associated with a second customer, the software administration directive identifying an application service package selection for the second administered device;
receiving a network request at the data center from the first administered device;
providing a vendor-branded application service to the first administered device;
receiving a network request at the data center from the second administered device; and
providing a vendor-branded application service to the second administered device;
wherein the vendor-branded application service provided to the first and second administered devices contain different vendor brands. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for providing multiple vendor offered singularly hosted application services comprising:
a data center including, a network server using directories to provide application services to customers, including directories with common resources and directories including vendor-branded resources including, a vendor-branded customer resource for software administration of customer administered devices;
plural vendor-branded application service resources including resources that run locally at customer administered devices;
a resource for supplying information to a vendor about the vendors associated customers; and
a database including associations between vendors and customers. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A memory for storing software for execution by a network server to perform a computer-implemented method of providing singularly hosted, customer administered, plural branded distribution of locally run software, the memory comprising:
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code for providing by a network accessible host, a data center including plural branded software for distribution over a network;
code for receiving a network request at the host, from an administered device associated in the data center with a customer identifier; and
code for distributing software to the administered device, the software containing a branding presentation of associated in the data center with the customer identifier. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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