Efficient Framework for Deploying Middleware Services

• US 20160132309A1
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd. (Capgemini SE)
• Original Assignee: iGate Global Solutions Ltd. (Igate Corporation)
• Inventors: Rajasekhar, Preetha, Yelavarthi, Surendra, Puthran, Soumitra, Murudkar, Rahul
• Granted Patent: US 9,940,112 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product provide computerized services to multiple enterprises. A developer creates each service according to a template, which includes both core functionality common to all services, and individualized functionality specific to the service. The developer either deactivates, or activates and configures, each function in the core based on a service level agreement with the particular enterprise for which the service was created. The template provides a wide variety of core functions, including dynamic data transformation, auditing, logging, exception handling, performance monitoring, service availability, reporting, security, and dynamic reconfiguring. After the service is deployed, it begins to report performance and usage data to a monitoring system. Based on these data, the system calculates an amount to charge the enterprise for use of the given service.

Claims

1. A system for providing computerized services to a plurality of enterprises, the system being coupled to the plurality of enterprises using a first data communication network, the system comprising:

a data store storing data;

a server computer, coupled to the data store using a second data communication network, that executes a plurality of computerized services as a function of the stored data;

a development system, coupled to the data store and the server computer using the second data communication network, that is configured to (a) create each service in the plurality of computerized services according to a service template, and (b) deploy each service in the plurality of computerized services for access by a given enterprise in the plurality of enterprises, wherein creating a given service according to the service template comprises;

in a manner specific to the given enterprise, either deactivating, or activating and configuring, each of a plurality of core functions in the given service, the plurality of core functions being present in each computerized service,

configuring an individualized functionality that is specific to the given service, and

configuring the given service to communicate with either or both of (a) the given enterprise, using the first data communication network, and (b) at least one other computerized service in the plurality of computerized services; and

a monitoring system, coupled to the data store and the server computer using the second data communication network, that is configured to (a) receive communications from each of the plurality of computerized services, after it has been deployed on the server computer, and (b) compute, for each given service, as a function of statistics data in the received communications from the given service, an amount to charge the given enterprise for use of the given service.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of core functions includes a plurality of the group comprising:

message processing, service auditing, logging, exception management, service virtualization, mocking, stubbing, performance monitoring, service availability, service packaging, service configuration, event handling, data reporting, service discovery, service control, and service security.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data communication network includes the Internet.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the second data communication network includes a local area network or a virtual private network.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the development system further comprises a display upon which is displayed a graphical user interface having a wizard tool for configuring the plurality of core functions.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the statistics data comprise one or more of:

a number of times the given service has been accessed, a duration over which the given service was accessed, an amount of bandwidth consumed by the given service, an amount of computational time consumed by the given service, an average time taken to provide the given service, a number of exceptions raised by the given service, and an amount of data storage consumed by the given service.

7. A method of providing a plurality of computerized services to a plurality of enterprises, the method comprising:

(1) in a development system, creating a computerized service according to a service template, wherein the computerized service is configured to operate, as a function of data stored in a data store, in a server computer;

(2) using the development system, in a manner specific to a given enterprise in the plurality of enterprises, to either deactivate, or activate and configure, each of a plurality of core functions in the given service, the plurality of core functions being present in each computerized service;

(3) using the development system to configure an individualized functionality that is specific to the given service;

(4) using the development system to configure the given service to communicate with either or both of (a) the given enterprise, and (b) at least one other computerized service in the plurality of computerized services;

(5) using the development system to deploy the given service to the server computer for access by the given enterprise in the plurality of enterprises;

(6) performing steps (1)-(5) a plurality of times;

(7) in a monitoring system, coupled to the data store and the server computer, receiving communications from each of the plurality of deployed computerized services; and

(8) using the monitoring system to compute, for each given service, as a function of statistics data in the received communications from the given service, an amount to charge the given enterprise for use of the given service.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the plurality of core functions includes a plurality of the group comprising:

message processing, service auditing, logging, exception management, service virtualization, mocking, stubbing, performance monitoring, service availability, service packaging, service configuration, event handling, data reporting, service discovery, service control, and service security.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a service request in a deployed service from a client application over a data communications network;

retrieving data from the service request or from a data store over a private network, in response to receiving the service request;

performing a computation on the retrieved data; and

transmitting the results of the computation to the client application over the data communications network.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein performing the computation on the retrieved data comprises:

transmitting a service request that includes a portion of the retrieved data to a second deployed service over the private network; and

receiving a response from the second deployed service.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the results of the computation comprise either a web page encoded using HTML, or a data structure encoded using either XML or JSON.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein activating and configuring each of the core functions comprises using a wizard tool displayed on a graphical user interface.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the statistics data comprise one or more of:

a number of times the given service has been accessed, a duration over which the given service was accessed, an amount of bandwidth consumed by the given service, an amount of computational time consumed by the given service, an average time taken to provide the given service, a number of exceptions raised by the given service, and an amount of data storage consumed by the given service.

14. A non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium having computer code thereon for creating and deploying a computerized service to an enterprise, the medium comprising computer code for:

creating a computerized service according to a service template, wherein the computerized service is configured to operate, as a function of data stored in a data store, in a server computer;

in a manner specific to the enterprise, either deactivating, or activating and configuring, each of a plurality of core functions in the given service, the plurality of core functions being present in each computerized service;

configuring an individualized functionality that is specific to the given service;

configuring the given service to communicate with either or both of (a) the given enterprise, and (b) at least one other computerized service in the plurality of computerized services; and

deploying the given service to the server computer for access by the enterprise.

15. The storage medium of claim 14, further comprising computer code for a plurality of the group comprising:

message processing, service auditing, logging, exception management, service virtualization, mocking, stubbing, performance monitoring, service availability, service packaging, service configuration, event handling, data reporting, service discovery, service control, and service security.