Software Defined SaaS Platform

• US 20160034277A1
• Filed: 07/31/2015
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Corent Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Corent Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Syed, Shafiullah, Venkataraman, Sethuraman, Prabhu, Jeya Anantha, Fatehi, Feyzi
• Granted Patent: US 9,836,332 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/542 Intercept
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications

Abstract

A system that transforms non-SaaS applications into tenant-aware SaaS applications is disclosed, which analyzes the non SaaS applications to determine which intercepts to external libraries need to be translated into SaaS intercepts that utilize SaaS tenancy services, SaaS operations services, and/or SaaS business services. The system transforms the non-SaaS applications into SaaS applications by providing intercept handlers that call SaaS services on demand when the transformed SaaS application throws a transformed SaaS interrupt.

Claims

1. A system for transforming software applications, comprising:

a scanning engine configured to identify non-SaaS application intercepts of a non-SaaS application capable of being transformed into SaaS intercepts;

a compatibility engine configured to transform a portion of the non-SaaS application intercepts into SaaS intercepts to generate a transformed SaaS application; and

a SaaS runtime engine configured to trigger at least one SaaS service when at least one of the SaaS intercepts is triggered by the transformed SaaS application.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the SaaS service is a cloud environment service.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the service is selected from the group consisting of a tenancy service, an operations service, and a business service.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the operation adds a SaaS intercept to the transformed SaaS application for each identified non-SaaS application intercept.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the compatibility engine installs an interception pattern handler into the generated transformed SaaS application, wherein the interception pattern handler is configured to:

catch calls initiated from a call site;

determine whether a caught call is a non-SaaS application intercept, or a SaaS application intercept; and

route SaaS application intercepts to a SaaS runtime engine and non-SaaS application intercepts to an external system.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the interception pattern handler routes SaaS application intercepts to the runtime engine by utilizing an interception API handler.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the SaaS runtime engine is functionally coupled to a tenancy and user identity manager that tracks a tenancy identity of an application instance.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the tenancy and user identity manager provides the tenancy identity to a tenancy services engine to trigger the at least one SaaS service as a function of the tenancy identity.