RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT BASED ON CONDITIONS

• US 20130290930A1
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Fortune, Erik, Hawkins, Rylan, Constable, Peter G., Chue, Sunggook, Chi, Dennis
• Granted Patent: US 9,021,434 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

Architecture that facilitates the package partitioning of application resources based on conditions, and the package applicability based on the conditions. An index is created for a unified lookup of the available resources. At build time of an application, the resources are indexed and determined to be applicable based on the conditions. The condition under which the resource is applicable is then used to automatically partition the resource into an appropriate package. Each resource package then becomes applicable under the conditions in which the resources within it are applicable, and is deployed to the user if the user merits the conditions (e.g., an English user will receive an English package of English strings, but not a French package). Before the application is run, the references to the resources are merged and can be used to do appropriate lookup of what resources are available.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented resource management system, comprising:

a conditions component that facilitates creation of conditions under which resources are applicable to build of an application, the conditions define applicability information for associated resources of the application;

a partition component that automatically partitions the resources into resource packages for use by the application based on the associated conditions; and

a processor that executes computer-executable instructions associated with at least the conditions component and the partition component.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an indexing component that creates an index which enumerates the resources, references to resources, and conditions associated with the resources and references.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the index stores metadata for a resource to enable detection of a change in the resource, enforce constraints on the resource, enforce licensing, and enforce authentication.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a condition applicator component that recognizes tokens to find resources that meet specific applicability information of a resource package for the application.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a context component that determines attributes of current runtime context and compares the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for a resource package.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein if a resource has conditions that match conditions of another resource in a resource package, the resource and a reference to the resource are stored in the resource package.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein references to resources in a resource package are merged before the resources are accessed at application runtime, and the merged references are used to lookup available resources.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein a new resource package is created when no resource has conditions that match other resources in a resource package.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein a resource package is applicable under the conditions in which the associated resources are applicable and deployed to the application if the application meets the conditions.

10. A method, comprising:

identifying conditions under which resources are applicable to build of an application, the conditions define applicability information for associated resources of the application;

creating an index which enumerates the resources, references to resources, and conditions associated with the resources and references;

recognizing tokens to find resources that meet specific applicability information of a resource package for the application; and

partitioning the resources into the resource package for use by the application based on the associated conditions and partitioning of index indices.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising determining attributes of a current runtime context and compares the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for the resource package.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the resource package stores the resource and a reference to the resource if the resource has conditions that match conditions of another resource in the package, references to resources in the package are merged before the resources are accessed at application runtime, and the merged references are used to lookup available resources.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein a new resource package is created when no resource has conditions that match other resources in the package.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the resource package is deployed based on the conditions.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein references to resources in the resource package are merged before the resources are accessed at application runtime, and the merged references are used to lookup available resources.

16. A memory device having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

identifying conditions under which resources are applicable to build of an application, the conditions define applicability information for associated resources of the application;

creating an index which enumerates the resources, references to resources, and conditions associated with the resources and references;

recognizing tokens to find resources that meet specific applicability information of a resource package for the application; and

partitioning the resources into the resource package for use by the application based on the associated conditions and partitioning of index indices.

17. The memory device of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise determining attributes of a current runtime context and compares the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for the resource package.

18. The memory device of claim 16, wherein the resource package stores the resource and a reference to the resource if the resource has conditions that match conditions of another resource in the package, references to resources in the package are merged before the resources are accessed at application runtime, and the merged references are used to lookup available resources.

19. The memory device of claim 16, wherein a new resource package is created when no resource has conditions that match other resources in the package.

20. The memory device of claim 16, wherein the resource package is deployed based on the conditions.