Method and system for policy enabled programming

• US 20090119656A1
• Filed: 11/02/2007
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nytell Software LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: TTI Inventions C LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cochinwala, Munir, Wullert, John R. II, Micallef, Josephine
• Granted Patent: US 8,448,159 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3644 by instrumenting at runtime
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/656 while running

Abstract

A system and method for allowing external execution-time adaptation of application behavior of an application in a telecommunication system without modification to the application code comprises an application having at least one break point and residing on an application server, at least one identifiable decision engine, and a listing of break points that has for each break point at least one identifier of the decision engine, such that at one of the break points, the application accesses the listing of break points, invokes the listed instances of the decision engine corresponding to the break point, and adapts application behavior based on the decision engine. In addition, each entry in the listing of break points can have a sequence number so that if two entries for the same break point have equal sequence numbers, the decision engines identified in these entries can be invoked in parallel.

Claims

1. A system for allowing external execution-time adaptation of application behavior of an application in a telecommunication system, comprising:

an application residing on an application server, said application having at least one break point;

at least one identifiable decision engine; and

a listing of break point configurations comprising at least one identifier of said decision engines for each break point,

wherein at one of said break points, said application accesses said listing of break point configurations, invokes the listed instances of said decision engines for said one break point, and adapts application behavior based on said at least one decision engine.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said listing of break point configurations is external to said application.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said listing of break point configurations further comprises attribute mapping for each identifier and an action type for each identifier.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said listing of break point configurations further comprises a sequence number associated with each entry in said listing.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said listing of break point configurations dynamically maps said break point to said decision engine.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein if said sequence numbers for each entry of said one break point are equal, invocation is done in parallel.

7. A method for allowing external execution-time adaptation of application behavior of an application in a telecommunication system, said method comprising:

accessing a list of break point configurations at each of at least one break points in an application, said table having at least one identifier for a decision engine for each of said at least one break points;

invoking all of the decision engines corresponding to the break point, and

adapting the application behavior based on the decision engine.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein said listing of break point configurations is external to said application.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein said listing of break point configurations further comprises attribute mapping for each identifier and an action type for each identifier.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein said listing of break point configurations further comprises a sequence number associated with each entry in said listing.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein said listing of break point configurations dynamically maps said break point to said decision engine.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein if said sequence numbers for each entry of said one break point are equal, invoking is done in parallel.