MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM

• US 20120166488A1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: TATA Consultancy Services Limited (Tata Sons Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kaushik, Sundarraj, Gangwani, Hiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,317,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/795
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself

Abstract

Method(s) and system(s) for identifying an application behavior of a multi-tenant application for a tenant are described herein. The method includes determining whether a reference attribute of the multi-tenant application is encountered by the tenant. The reference attribute is an application attribute for which variations from a default behavior of the multi-tenant application are available. Based on the determining, it is ascertained whether a configuration template is defined for the tenant. Further, based on the ascertainment of the configuration template, the application behavior corresponding to the tenant is identified. The identified application behavior is provided to the multi-tenant application such that multi-tenant application exhibits the identified application behavior.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining whether a reference attribute of a multi-tenant application is encountered by a tenant, wherein the reference attribute is an application attribute of the multi-tenant application for which variations from a default behavior of the multi-tenant application are available;

ascertaining, based on the determining, whether a configuration template is defined for the tenant;

identifying an application behavior, of the multi-tenant application, corresponding to the tenant based on the ascertaining, wherein the application behavior is identified based at least on the reference attribute; and

providing the identified application behavior to the multi-tenant application such that the multi-tenant application exhibits the identified application behavior for the tenant.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identifying further comprises:

determining one or more parent configuration templates associated with the configuration template; and

identifying the application behavior corresponding to the tenant based at least in part on the one or more parent configuration templates.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identifying further comprises:

determining a locale attribute corresponding to the tenant; and

identifying the application behavior corresponding to the tenant based at least on the locale attribute.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising determining a default value of an encountered application attribute, when the reference attribute is not encountered.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reference attribute is one of a user interface, a processing step, a business rule, a workflow, an access control, an application data structure, a report, and an integration with other multi-tenant applications.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identified application behavior indicates one of the default behavior and a variation from the default behavior.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the configuration template is associated with a group of tenants.

8. A multi-tenant system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising an attribute identification module configured to,

determine whether a reference attribute of a multi-tenant application is encountered by a tenant, wherein the reference attribute is an application attribute of the multi-tenant application for which variations from a default behavior of the multi-tenant application are available;

ascertain whether a configuration template is defined for the tenant, when the reference attribute is encountered; and

identify an application behavior of the multi-tenant application corresponding to the tenant based at least on the reference attribute, when the configuration template is not defined for the tenant.

9. The multi-tenant system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the attribute identification module is further configured to identify the application behavior of the multi-tenant application corresponding to the tenant based in part on the configuration template and the reference attribute, when the configuration template is defined for the tenant.

10. The multi-tenant system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the attribute identification module is further configured to:

determine at least one parent configuration template associated with the configuration template; and

identify the application behavior corresponding to the tenant based at least in part on the at least one parent configuration template.

11. The multi-tenant system as claimed in any of the claims 8 to 10, wherein the attribute identification module is further configured to:

determine a locale attribute corresponding to the tenant; and

identify the application behavior corresponding to the tenant based at least on the locale attribute.

12. The multi-tenant system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the at least one parent configuration template is a base template.

13. The multi-tenant system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the multi-tenant system is associated with a metadata repository, and wherein the metadata repository includes metadata pertaining to tenants, to a base template, one or more configuration templates, inheritance of configuration templates, reference attributes, and differential attributes associated with the multi-tenant application.

14. The multi-tenant system as claimed in claim 8 further comprising, a configuration module configured to create at least one of a base template for the multi-tenant application and one or more configuration templates for the multi-tenant application.

15. The multi-tenant system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the attribute identification module is configured to provide a default attribute value for the reference attribute, when no application behavior is identified for the tenant.

16. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions which when executed, implement a method comprising:

determining whether a reference attribute of a multi-tenant application is encountered by a tenant, wherein the reference attribute is an application attribute of the multi-tenant application for which variations from a default behavior of the multi-tenant application are available;

ascertaining, based on the determining, whether a configuration template is defined for the tenant;

identifying an application behavior, of the multi-tenant application, corresponding to the tenant based on the ascertaining, wherein the application behavior is identified based at least on the reference attribute; and

providing the identified application behavior to the multi-tenant application such that the multi-tenant application exhibits the identified application behavior for the tenant.

17. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 16, wherein the identifying further comprises:

determining one or more parent configuration templates associated with the configuration template; and

identifying the application behavior corresponding to the tenant based at least in part on the one or more parent configuration templates.

18. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 16, wherein the identifying further comprises:

determining a locale attribute corresponding to the tenant; and

identifying the application behavior corresponding to the tenant based at least on the locale attribute.