HEALTHCARE AS A SERVICE - DOWNLOADABLE ENTERPRISE APPLICATION

• US 20160140362A1
• Filed: 06/24/2015
• Published: 05/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Aghili, Houtan, Baek, Ock Kee, Curbera, Francisco P., Ebadollahi, Shahram, Kapoor, Shubir, Mahatma, Shilpa N., Mohindra, Ajay, Mojsilovic, Aleksandra, Yuen-Reed, Gigi Y.
• Granted Patent: US 9,760,359 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6281 at program execution time, where the protection is within the operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• 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: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

An application as a service provided in a secure environment. A sandbox in a user'"'"'s computing environment may be created. An application may be downloaded to the user'"'"'s computing environment to run within the sandbox. Data sources associated with the user'"'"'s computing environment may be searched and connectivity established with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application. The application may be run within the sandbox using the established connectivity. Metering may be performed to monitor usage of the application at the user'"'"'s computing environment.

Claims

1. A method of providing an application as a service in a secure environment, comprising:

creating a sandbox in a user'"'"'s computing environment;

downloading an application to the user'"'"'s computing environment to run within the sandbox;

searching data sources associated with the user'"'"'s computing environment and establishing connectivity with data registry of the data sources based on data description received with the application;

installing the application to run within the sandbox using the established connectivity.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

metering usage of the application at the user'"'"'s computing environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the application comprises database, visualization and analytics components.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sandbox allows access to data local to the user'"'"'s computing environment and prevents the data from leaving the user'"'"'s computing environment.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically validating an installation of the application by discovering data specified in the data description in the data sources and determining whether the data specified in the data description exist in the data sources.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the application is downloaded from a computing environment that provides the application as SaaS.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a user interface is provided for allowing a user to enter the application to use as service.