Method and apparatus for delivering managed applications to remote locations

• US 20070226227A1
• Filed: 03/27/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ServiceNow Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Helfman, Nadav
• Granted Patent: US 7,774,323 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

An apparatus for delivering managed services to remote locations, the apparatus comprising a delivery policy, and a repository containing pairs of executables and pairs of configurations intended for delivery platforms and for remote appliances. The apparatus further comprises a delivery platform, responsible for delivering the executables and the configurations to one or more servers and one or more remote appliances.

Claims

1. An apparatus for managing delivery of an at least one managed service supplied by an at least one server to an at least one remote appliance, the apparatus comprising:

an at least one delivery platform for delivering an at least one first resource related to the at least one managed service;

an at least one server using the at least one first resource related to the at least one managed service;

an at least one remote appliance using an at least one second resource related to the at least one managed service; and

an at least one storage unit, storing a delivery policy for the at least one managed service and the first resource or the second resource associated with the at least one managed service.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server and the delivery platform are co-located on the same computing platform.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the server delivers the at least one second resource to the at least one remote appliance.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the delivery platform delivers the at least one second resource to the at least one remote appliance.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first resource or the second resource is an at least one executable.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the first resource is a server executable and the second resource is a remote executable.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one first resource or the at least one second resource is an at least one configuration.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the at least one first resource is a server configuration and the at least one second resource is a remote configuration.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one first resource or the at least one second resource is user data.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the delivery platform further comprises a content delivery component for delivering an at least one executable or an at least one static resource to an at least one server or to an at least one remote appliance.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the remote appliance is a cable converter.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the remote appliance is a software appliance.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the remote appliance is pre-installed.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one remote appliance comprises an at least one point of service components.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one server is an at least one application server.

16. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one remote appliance comprises an at least one content receiving component.

17. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one remote appliance or the at least one server are installed with a version of an operating system.

18. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one remote appliance or the at least one comprise an optimizer component.

19. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a communication channel.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein the communication channel is a wide area network.