System and method for customizing infrastructure services for use in network services

• US 20040148183A1
• Filed: 04/04/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Perspecta, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sadiq, Waqar
• Granted Patent: US 7,657,898 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 After-sales

Abstract

A system and method for system services customization using configured infrastructure properties through a system of property sheets. When a virtual container is configured with an infrastructure service, the preferred embodiment loads the plug of the infrastructure service and invokes the plug, providing it the empty collection of property sheets. The plug responds by populating this collection with corresponding property sheets. A user can then provide unique values for those properties, which are then saved with the other metadata. Each collection contains one or more property sheets and each property sheet contains one or more properties.

Claims

1. A method for managing services, comprising:

receiving an instruction to add a service to a virtual container;

invoking a plug corresponding to the service;

adding property information corresponding to the plug to a set of property sheets; and

storing the property sheets in a metadata corresponding to the service,

wherein the property information defines property settings of the service.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving user configuration of the property information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the service is an infrastructure service.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the property sheets are empty before the property information is added.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending the property information to the service when a service request is received.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising processing the service using the property information.

7. A method using data processing system services, comprising:

receiving a request for a business service;

invoking a plug corresponding to an infrastructure service;

loading property information corresponding to the plug; and

processing the request by the infrastructure service using the property information,

wherein the property information defines property settings of the infrastructure service.

8. A data processing system having at least a processing and an accessible memory, comprising:

means for receiving an instruction to add a service to a virtual container;

means for invoking a plug corresponding to the service;

means for adding property information corresponding to the plug to a set of property sheets; and

means for storing the property sheets in a metadata corresponding to the service,

wherein the property information defines property settings of the service.

9. The data processing system of claim 8, further comprising means for receiving user configuration of the property information.

10. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the service is an infrastructure service.

11. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the property sheets are empty before the property information is added.

12. The data processing system of claim 8, further comprising means for sending the property information to the service when a service request is received.

13. The data processing system of claim 8, further comprising processing the service using the property information.

14. A data processing system having at least a processing and an accessible memory, comprising:

means for receiving a request for a business service;

means for invoking a plug corresponding to an infrastructure service;

means for loading property information corresponding to the plug; and

means for processing the request by the infrastructure service using the property information,

wherein the property information defines property settings of the infrastructure service.

15. A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:

instructions for identifying at least one remote system;

instructions for sending a request to the remote system to pause processing of at least one system service;

instructions for sending an updated software package to the remote system; and

instructions for sending, to the remote system, a request to install the updated software package,

wherein the remote system thereafter resumes the processing of the system service, using the updated software package.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising instructions for receiving user configuration of the property information.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the service is an infrastructure service.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the property sheets are empty before the property information is added.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising sending the property information to the service when a service request is received.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising processing the service using the property information.

21. A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium, comprising:

instructions for receiving a request for a business service;

instructions for invoking a plug corresponding to an infrastructure service;

instructions for loading property information corresponding to the plug; and

instructions for processing the request by the infrastructure service using the property information,

wherein the property information defines property settings of the infrastructure service.