CONCURRENT AUTHORING SESSION MANAGEMENT FOR DECLARATIVE DOCUMENT

• US 20170315785A1
• Filed: 12/09/2016
• Published: 11/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Flutre, Arnaud Christian, Shaaban, Yasser E., Fransazov, Mariyan D., Colle, Olivier, Pennell, Andrew Michael, Chaudhry, Anjli, Vong, William Hong, Overholt, Mark David
• Application Number:
  US15/374,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20170315785A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/41 Compilation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70

Abstract

Management of an authoring session in which a declarative document is authored by multiple authoring entities. The declarative document is a computer program that is formed of declarative statements made in a declarative programming language. The management occurs by evaluating incoming requests to engage in various ways in an authoring session. The engagement might include initiating an authoring session, attaching to an existing authoring session, or performing actions (such as read, write, publish, save, share, and so forth). The management uses job tokens that are issued to the multiple authors in a manner that concurrent authoring is possible. Upon receiving the request for engagement in the authoring session, the corresponding job token is evaluated to determine whether the requestor is authored to engage as requested. The engagement is then performed if permitted.

Claims

1. A method for managing an authoring session in which a declarative document is being authored for compilation into an executable application, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of requests to engage in an authoring session in which a declarative document is authored for compilation into an executable application, at least some of the requests for engagement being from different requestors, the plurality of requests collectively including a plurality of job tokens that define authorization scope in engaging with the session in which the declarative document is authored, the plurality of job tokens generated so that concurrent authoring of the declarative document is achieved in the session without inconsistent activity on the declarative document;

for at least one request for engagement received from each different requestor, performing the following;

accessing a job token associated with the request for engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored;

determining whether the requestor is authorized to engage in the requested engagement based on evaluation of the job token;

if the user is not authorized based on this determination, decline the requested engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored; and

if the user is authorized based on this determination, allowing the requested engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, the engagement in the authoring session for a first requestor being an establishment of the authoring session for authoring the declarative document.

3. The method in accordance with claim 2, the engagement in the authoring session for a second requestor being an attachment to the authoring session for authoring the declarative document.

4. The method in accordance with claim 3, the allowance of the request for the first requestor to establish the authoring session comprising causing a document server host to be hosted at a particular network address, and registering the network address with a distributed redistribution service.

5. The method in accordance with claim 4, the allowance of the request for the second requestor to attach to the authoring session comprising registering the second requestor with the distributed redistribution service.

6. The method in accordance with claim 2, the allowance of the request for the first requestor to establish the authoring session comprising causing a document server host to be hosted at a particular network address, and registering the network address with a distributed redistribution service.

7. The method in accordance with claim 6, the registering of the network address with the distributed redistribution service further comprising registering a version of the document server host to be registered with the distributed redistribution service.

8. The method in accordance with claim 1, the allowing the requested engagement in the authoring session in which the declarative document is authored comprising:

determining a network address of a document server host that host the authoring session; and

routing the request to the network address.

9. The method in accordance with claim 1, the allowing the requested engagement in the authoring session in which the declaration document is authored comprising:

identifying a version of the document server host associated with the request;

determining a network address of a document server host of that identified version that that hosts the authoring session; and

routing the request to the network address.

10. The method in accordance with claim 1, at least one of the accessed job tokens authoring its holder to share authorization to engage in the authoring session.

12. The computing system in accordance with claim 1, the engagement in the authoring session for a first requestor being an establishment of the authoring session for authoring the declarative document.

13. The computing system in accordance with claim 12, the engagement in the authoring session for a second requestor being an attachment to the authoring session for authoring the declarative document.

14. The computing system in accordance with claim 13, the allowance of the request for the first requestor to establish the authoring session comprising causing a document server host to be hosted at a particular network address, and registering the network address with a distributed redistribution service.

15. The computing system in accordance with claim 14, the allowance of the request for the second requestor to attach to the authoring session comprising registering the second requestor with the distributed redistribution service.

16. The computing system in accordance with claim 12, the allowance of the request for the first requestor to establish the authoring session comprising causing a document server host to be hosted at a particular network address, and registering the network address with a distributed redistribution service.

17. The computing system in accordance with claim 16, the registering of the network address with the distributed redistribution service further comprising registering a version of the document server host to be registered with the distributed redistribution service.

11. A computing system that receives a plurality of requests to engage in an authoring session in which a declarative document is authored for compilation into an executable application, at least some of the requests for engagement being from different requestors, the plurality of requests collectively including a plurality of job tokens that define authorization scope in engaging with the session in which the declarative document is authored, the plurality of job tokens generated so that concurrent authoring of the declarative document is achieved in the session without inconsistent activity on the declarative document, the computing system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is configured to perform the following for at least one request for engagement received from each different requestor, performing the following;

accessing a job token associated with the request for engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored;

determining whether the requestor is authorized to engage in the requested engagement based on evaluation of the job token;

if the user is not authorized based on this determination, decline the requested engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored; and

if the user is authorized based on this determination, allowing the requested engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored.

18. The computing system in accordance with claim 11, the allowing the requested engagement in the authoring session in which the declarative document is authored comprising:

determining a network address of a document server host that host the authoring session; and

routing the request to the network address.

19. The computing system in accordance with claim 11, the allowing the requested engagement in the authoring session in which the declaration document is authored comprising:

identifying a version of the document server host associated with the request;

determining a network address of a document server host of that identified version that that hosts the authoring session; and

routing the request to the network address.

20. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, the computing system is caused to perform a method for managing an authoring session in which a declarative document is being authored for compilation into an executable application,

wherein as part of the authoring session, the computing system receives a plurality of requests to engage in an authoring session in which a declarative document is authored for compilation into an executable application, at least some of the requests for engagement being from different requestors, the plurality of requests collectively including a plurality of job tokens that define authorization scope in engaging with the session in which the declarative document is authored, the plurality of job tokens generated so that concurrent authoring of the declarative document is achieved in the session without inconsistent activity on the declarative document, the method comprising the following for at least one request for engagement received from each different requestor, performing the following:

accessing a job token associated with the request for engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored;

determining whether the requestor is authorized to engage in the requested engagement based on evaluation of the job token;

if the user is not authorized based on this determination, decline the requested engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored; and

if the user is authorized based on this determination, allowing the requested engagement in the session in which the declarative document is authored.