METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER-DESIGNED APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT

• US 20160063238A1
• Filed: 11/06/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Billingsley, Eric Noel
• Application Number:
  US14/934,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063238A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Embodiments of a method and system for utilizing user-designed applications are disclosed. A user-designed application that utilizes at least one high-level API available within a system may be received. The user-designed application may be deployed server-side within the system. A user request may be processed server-side for the user-designed application in the system.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

deploying a user-designed application at a system, the user-designed application causing the system to provide a feature that was not provided by the system prior to the deploying of the user-designed application;

receiving a request, from the client device, to access content from the user-designed application; and

processing the request to determine whether to provide access or deny access to the content through the user-designed application based on utilization levels of one or more resources of the system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the request to determine whether to provide access or deny access to the content through the user-designed application based on the utilization levels of one or more of the resources of the system further comprising:

determining to provide access to the content through the user-designed application when utilization of cycles of a central processing unit (CPU) does not exceed a system threshold.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the request to determine whether to provide access or deny access to the content through the user-designed application based on the utilization levels of one or more of the resources of the system further comprising:

determining to provide access to the content through the user-designed application when utilization of a memory device does not exceed a system threshold.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the request to determine whether to provide access or deny access to the content through the user-designed application based on the utilization levels of one or more of the resources of the system further comprising:

determining to provide access to the content through the user-designed application when utilization of a number of system calls does not exceed a system threshold.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the utilization levels includes a system threshold of a resource of the system such that access to the content of the user-designed application is denied based on utilization of the resource of the system exceeding a system threshold of the resource of the system.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to processing the request and determining to provide access to the content through the user-designed application, providing access to the content of the user-designed application via a plurality of low-level application program interfaces (APIs) embodied as at least one high-level API.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the high-level APIs invokes API calls to some of the plurality of low-level APIs simultaneously.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the feature includes a user-designed interface that is different from a standard interface provided by the system.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the user-designed interface provides access to content stored within the system and access to content available outside the system via website links or other resources.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking utilization of one or more of the resources of the system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein tracking the utilization of one or more of the resources of the system further comprising:

tracking utilization of one or more of the resources of the system associated with the user-designed application.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining compensation associated with the user-designed application based on tracking the utilization of one or more of the resources of the system associated with the user-designed application.

13. A system comprising:

a memory device for storing instructions;

a processor, when executing the instructions, causes the system to perform operations comprising;

deploying a user-designed application at a system, the user-designed application causing the system to provide a feature that was not provided by the system prior to the deploying of the user-designed application;

receiving a request, from a client device, to access content from the user-designed application; and

processing the request to determine whether to provide access or deny access to the content through the user-designed application based on utilization levels of one or more resources of the system.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the utilization levels includes a system threshold of a resource of the system such that access to the content of the user-designed application is denied based on utilization of the resource of the system exceeding the system threshold of the resource of the system.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor, when executing the instructions, causes the system to perform operations further comprising:

in response to processing the request and determining to provide access to the content through the user-designed application, providing access to the content of the user-designed application via a plurality of low-level APIs embodied as at least one high-level API.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the processor, when executing the instructions, causes the system to perform the operation, in response to determining to provide access to the content through the user-designed application by processing the request, providing access to the content of the user-designed application via a plurality of low-level APIs embodied as at least one high-level API further comprising:

invoking, by at least one of the high-level APIs, API calls to some of the plurality of low-level APIs simultaneously.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the feature includes a user-designed interface that is different from a standard interface provided by the system.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor, when executing the instructions, causes the system to perform operations further comprising:

tracking utilization of one or more of the resources of the system associated with the user-designed application.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor, when executing the instructions, causes the system to perform operations further comprising:

determining compensation associated with the user-designed application based on tracking the utilization of one or more of the resources of the system associated with the user-designed application

20. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

deploying a user-designed application at a system, the user-designed application causing the system to provide a feature that was not provided by the system prior to the deploying of the user-designed application;

receiving a request, from a client device, to access content from the user-designed application; and

processing the request to determine whether to provide access or deny access to the content through the user-designed application based on utilization levels of one or more resources.