SERVICE ASSOCIATION MODEL

• US 20140075033A1
• Filed: 05/31/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Doering, Jeffrey Ryan, Gao, Ying, Arun, Gopalan, You, Wei
• Granted Patent: US 9,467,355 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Enabling associations between cloud services in a computer network cloud infrastructure system is described. Cloud services can include infrastructure as a service (IAAS) storage and processing services, platform as a service (PAAS) database and Java services, and software as a service (SAAS) customer resource management services. Associations between the services can include automatically sharing security certificate-based keys and tokens or otherwise sharing data. Upon subscribing to a cloud system through an automated system, a user is prompted to select allowable associations between the selected services. The services are then provisioned and the user-selected associations are enabled.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing multiple services in a cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices, the services subscribed to by a user of the cloud infrastructure system;

receiving a selection of an association between the services;

determining, by a computing device, whether the selected association between the services is allowable in the cloud infrastructure system; and

enabling, using the one or more computing devices, the selected association based on a determination that the selected association between the services is allowable.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

provisioning, using the one or more computing devices, the services in the cloud infrastructure system.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the selection is received before the provisioning, the enabling performed in conjunction with the provisioning.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the selection is received after or at the same time as the provisioning, the enabling performed after the provisioning.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the provisioning includes choosing one or more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or hardware pools for the user.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein the enabling occurs automatically in response to the provisioning.

7. The method of claim 2 wherein the provisioning occurs asynchronously within the one or more computing devices of the cloud infrastructure system.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the association is between services in a common identity domain.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying allowable associations between the services to a user.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud infrastructure system includes a multi-tenant environment.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the enabling includes saving a unidirectional pairing from one of the services to another of the services.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the enabling includes saving a bidirectional pairing between one of the services to another of the services.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the services includes a Java®

service and the other service includes a customer resource management (CRM) service or a human capital management (HCM) service.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the services includes a web center content (WCC) service.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the services includes a Java service and the other service includes a hosted database service.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the operations are performed in the order shown.

17. A machine-readable tangible medium embodying information indicative of instructions for causing one or more machines to perform operations to implement the method of claim 1.

18. A computer system executing instructions, the system comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory operatively coupled with the at least one processor, the processor executing computer code stored in the memory for;

providing multiple services in a cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices, the services subscribed to by a user of the cloud infrastructure system;

receiving a selection of an association between the services;

determining, by a computing device, whether the selected association between the services is allowable in the cloud infrastructure system; and

enabling, using the one or more computing devices, the selected association based on a determination that the selected association between the services is allowable.

19. A method comprising:

providing a set of services in a cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices;

receiving a subscription order from a user subscribing to a first service of the set;

receiving a subscription order from the user subscribing to a second service of the set;

determining, by a computing device, allowable associations between services in the set of services of the cloud infrastructure system;

displaying to the user the allowable associations;

receiving a user selection of an association between the first and second services; and

enabling, using the one or more computing devices, the user-selected association based on a determination that the selected association between the services is allowable.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising:

pre-provisioning a service of the set before the receiving of the subscription orders.