Business Application Publication

• US 20150302074A1
• Filed: 07/02/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Mital, Vijay, Uritsky, Max, Poozhiyil, Suraj, Khosravy, Moe, Fries, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 10,621,204 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/254 Extract, transform and load [ETL] procedures, e.g. ETL data flows in data warehouses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/283 Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A data marketplace infrastructure provides a crowd sourcing solution to development, discovery and publication of decision applications. Applications can be submitted from a user to a data warehouse in association with a data feed. One or more discovery properties are determined with regard to each application. The applications are made available to other client systems in association with the data feed. A relevant data feed and a relevant application can be identified based on satisfaction of a discovery request by the one or more determined discovery properties of the application. The application can be selected and downloaded to the user for evaluation and customization. The customized application can then be submitted to the data warehouse for publication with the other applications associated with the data feed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining one or more discovery properties of an application received from a client system;

making the application available to other client systems in association with a data feed;

identifying the data feed from a plurality of data feeds based on satisfaction of a discovery request by the one or more determined discovery properties of the application, the discovery request being received from a requester; and

transmitting the application to the requester in association with the identified data feed.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining operation comprises:

recording one or more keywords in association with the application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining operation comprises:

indexing text from expressions in the application.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the making operation comprises:

recording the application in a discoverable application options datastore, wherein the discovery properties are searchable by the requester.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying operation comprises:

searching for a data feed that satisfies the discovery request.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

applying one or more publication restrictions on the application.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the one or more publication restrictions includes one or more of an editing restriction, a selecting restriction, or a viewing restriction.

8. One or more computer-readable storage media encoding computer-executable instructions for executing on a computer system a computer process, the computer process comprising:

determining one or more discovery properties of an application received from a client system;

making the application available to other client systems in association with a data feed;

identifying the data feed from a plurality of data feeds based on satisfaction of a discovery request by the one or more determined discovery properties of the application, the discovery request being received from a requester; and

transmitting the application to the requester in association with the identified data feed.

9. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8 wherein the determining operation comprises:

recording one or more keywords in association with the application.

10. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8 wherein the determining operation comprises:

indexing text from expressions in the application.

11. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8 wherein the making operation comprises:

recording the application in a discoverable application options datastore, wherein the discovery properties are searchable by the requester.

12. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8 wherein the identifying operation comprises:

searching for a data feed that satisfies the discovery request.

13. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 8, wherein the computer process further comprises:

applying one or more publication restrictions on the application.

14. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 13 wherein the one or more publication restrictions include one or more of an editing restriction, a selecting restriction, or a viewing restriction.

15. A system comprising:

a publication manager that determines one or more discovery properties of an application received from a client system and records the application in association with the data feed, wherein the applications is available to other client systems; and

a selector that identifies the data feed from a plurality of data feeds based on satisfaction of a discovery request by the one or more determined discovery properties of the application, the discovery request being received from a requester and transmits the application to the requester in association with the identified data feed.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the publication manager further records one or more keywords in association with the application.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein the publication manager further indexes text from expressions in the application.

18. The system of claim 15 wherein the selector presents a list further provides searching capabilities for a requester into the one or more discovery properties of the application.

19. The system of claim 15 the publication manager further applies one or more publication restrictions on the application.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more publication restrictions includes one or more of an editing restriction, a selecting restriction, or a viewing restriction.