SHARED DATA MANAGEMENT IN SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORM

• US 20120239699A1
• Filed: 03/18/2011
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Anand, Rangachari, Lee, Juhnyoung, Yang, Jeaha, Hobson, Stacy F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,667,024 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/792
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor

Abstract

Shared data management in software-as-a-service platform may provide a common object data schema for one or more data objects and one or more data attributes associated with said one or more data objects stored in a master database. A plurality of applications may be enabled to be deployed dynamically on a platform and interoperate by sharing said data values stored in the master database. Data trading is enabled in which applications request permissions to read from or write to, or both, the master database, and in which the requests are mediated by granting or denying permissions.

Claims

1. A method for shared data management in software-as-a-service platform, comprising:

providing a common object data schema for one or more data objects and one or more data attributes associated with said one or more data objects stored in a master database;

allowing a plurality of applications to be deployed dynamically on a platform;

receiving registrations from said applications deployed on the platform, the registrations including one or more requests to read or requests to write data values or both, for selected attributes of said one or more data attributes by said plurality of applications; and

enabling said plurality of applications to interoperate by sharing said data values stored in the master database.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

enabling dynamic data trading among said plurality of applications by allowing said plurality of applications to dynamically request to read or write said data values or both, and by dynamically granting or denying permissions to said request to read or write.

3. The method of claim 2, further including:

notifying of said granted or denied permissions to all applications in a subscription set deployed on the platform.

4. The method of claim 2, further including receiving dynamically one or more requests to withdraw said request to read or write.

5. The method of claim 2, further including dynamically removing one or more of said plurality of applications, wherein said dynamically granted or denied permissions are also removed.

6. The method of claim 1, further including keeping a catalog of said plurality of applications deployed dynamically on the platform, wherein a subscriber is enabled to select one or more applications to subscribe and create a subscription set.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of enabling includes enabling said plurality of applications to interoperate by sharing said data values stored in the master database, without said applications being directly aware of one other'"'"'s presence.

8. A system for shared data management in software-as-a-service platform, comprising:

a common object data schema for one or more data objects and one or more data attributes associated with said one or more data objects;

a shared data management server operable to publish said common object data schema, the shared data management server further operable to allow a plurality of applications to be deployed dynamically on a platform, the shared data management server further operable to mediate data sharing of data associated with said common object data schema among said plurality of applications.

9. The system of claim 8, further including:

an editor operable to enable said plurality of applications to dynamically request to read or write or both of data associated with said object data schema, the editor further operable to enable granting or denying of said request to read or write dynamically.

10. The system of claim 9, further including:

an operational database for storing statuses of said granting or denying of said request to read or write.

11. The system of claim 10, further including a master database for storing data associated with said common data object schema.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the shared data management server notifies said granting and denying of said request to read or write to all applications.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the shared data management server allows dynamically adding or removing of said applications on the platform.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein in response to an application being removed, all write and read permission associated with said application being removed are also removed.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the shared data management server keeps a catalog of said plurality of applications deployed dynamically on the platform, wherein a subscriber is enabled to select one or more applications to subscribe and create a subscription set.

16. The system of claim 8, wherein said plurality of application interoperate by sharing said data, without said applications being directly aware of one other'"'"'s presence.

17. A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of shared data management in software-as-a-service platform, comprising:

providing a common object data schema for one or more data objects and one or more data attributes associated with said one or more data objects stored in a master database;

allowing a plurality of applications to be deployed dynamically on a platform;

receiving registrations from said applications deployed on the platform, the registrations including one or more requests to read or requests to write data values or both, for selected attributes of said one or more data attributes by said plurality of applications; and

enabling said plurality of applications to interoperate by sharing said data values stored in the master database.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, further including:

enabling dynamic data trading among said plurality of applications by allowing said plurality of applications to dynamically request to read or write said data values or both, and by dynamically granting or denying permissions to said request to read or write.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 18, further including:

notifying said granted or denied permissions to all applications in a subscription set deployed on the platform.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 18, further including receiving dynamically one or more requests to withdraw said request to read or write.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 18, further including dynamically removing one or more of said plurality of applications, wherein said dynamically granted or denied permissions are also removed.

22. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, further including keeping a catalog of said plurality of applications deployed dynamically on the platform, wherein a subscriber is enabled to select one or more applications to subscribe and create a subscription set.

23. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the step of enabling includes enabling said plurality of applications to interoperate by sharing said data values stored in the master database, without said applications being directly aware of one other'"'"'s presence.