CONTROLLING AN APPLICATION DEPENDENCY IDENTIFIER

• US 20180124182A1
• Filed: 11/01/2016
• Published: 05/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Orman, Jerry K.
• Granted Patent: US 10,455,004 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

An application identifier control system controls an application dependency identification system to access request logs in one or more front end server systems that are providing access to a hosted application and identify dependencies. The dependencies are identified by identifying successful data access requests to an endpoint to be migrated, that originate from a separate, requesting application. A surfacing control system controls surfacing logic to surface the dependencies.

Claims

1. A computing system, comprising:

an application dependency identification system that applies filter criteria to data access request log data to identify dependencies of separate, requesting applications on an endpoint of a hosted application;

an application identifier control system that identifies a front end server system hosting the endpoint of the hosted application and remotely runs the application dependency identification system in the identified front end server system to identify the dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint; and

a result surfacing control system that generates a control signal to control surfacing of the dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint.

2. The computing system of claim 1 wherein the application dependency identification system comprises:

request result identifying logic configured to access an application accessing log corresponding to the identified front end server system, that stores the data access request log data, and to apply a filter criterion to identify successful data access requests logged in the application accessing log.

3. The computing system of claim 2 wherein the application dependency identification system comprises:

URI pattern matching logic configured to access the application accessing log and apply filter criteria to identify data access requests that request data from the endpoint of the hosted application.

4. The computing system of claim 3 wherein the application dependency identification system comprises:

requesting client filtering logic configured to access server configuration information indicative of applications local to a computing environment in which the hosted application is hosted and to access the application accessing log and apply filter criteria to identify data access requests that come from the separate, requesting applications that are external to the computing environment in which the hosted application is hosted.

5. The computing system of claim 4 wherein the application identifier control system comprises:

server location logic configured to identify the front end server system hosting the endpoint of the hosted application.

6. The computing system of claim 5 wherein the server location logic is configured to identify a plurality of front end server systems hosting the endpoint of the hosted application.

7. The computing system of claim 6 wherein the application identifier control system comprises:

remote access logic configured to remotely access each of the plurality of front end server systems and remotely run the application dependency identification system on log data in application accessing logs corresponding to each of the front end server systems to separately identify, in each of the front end server systems, the dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint.

8. The computing system of claim 7 wherein the application identifier control system comprises:

result transmission logic configured to transmit the separately identified dependencies from each of the plurality of front end server systems to the application identifier control system.

9. The computing system of claim 8 wherein the application identifier control system comprises:

result aggregation logic configured to aggregate the separately identified dependencies from each of the front end server systems into a single set of dependencies.

10. A computer implemented method, comprising:

identifying a front end server system hosting an endpoint of a hosted application;

remotely running a filter on data access request log data in the identified front end server system, with a set of filter criteria, to obtain filtered log data;

identifying application dependencies of separate, requesting applications on the endpoint of the hosted application based on the filtered log data; and

generating a control signal to control surfacing of the application dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 10 wherein remotely running a filter comprises:

accessing an application accessing log corresponding to the identified front end server system, that stores the data access request log data; and

applying a filter criterion to identify successful data access requests logged in the application accessing log.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 11 wherein remotely running a filter comprises:

accessing the application accessing log; and

applying a filter criterion to identify data access requests that request data from the endpoint of the hosted application.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 12 remotely running a filter comprises:

accessing server configuration information indicative of applications local to a computing environment in which the hosted application is hosted;

accessing the application accessing log; and

applying a filter criterion to identify data access requests that come from the separate, requesting applications that are external to the computing environment in which the hosted application is hosted.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 13 wherein identifying a front end server system comprises:

identifying a plurality of different front end server systems hosting the endpoint of the hosted application.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 14 wherein remotely running the filter comprises:

remotely accessing each of the plurality of different front end server systems; and

remotely running the filter on log data in application accessing logs corresponding to each of the plurality of different front end server systems, and wherein identifying application dependencies comprises separately identifying, in each of the plurality of different front end server systems, the application dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 15 and further comprising:

transmitting the separately identified application dependencies from each of the plurality of different front end server systems to a separate application identifier control system.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 16 and further comprising:

aggregating the separately identified application dependencies from each of the plurality of different front end server systems into a single set of application dependencies.

18. A computing system, comprising:

an application identifier control system that identifies a front end server system hosting an endpoint of a hosted application;

an application dependency identification system comprising;

request result identifying logic configured to access an application accessing log, corresponding to the identified front end server system, that stores data access request log data, and to apply a filter criterion to identify successful data access requests logged in the application accessing log;

URI pattern matching logic configured to access the application accessing log and apply filter criteria to identify data access requests that request data from the endpoint of the hosted application; and

requesting client filtering logic configured to access server configuration information indicative of applications local to a computing environment in which the hosted application is hosted and to access the application accessing log and apply filter criteria to identify data access requests that come from separate, requesting applications that are external to the computing environment in which the hosted application is hosted, the application identifier control system being configured to remotely run the application dependency identification system in the identified front end server system to identify application dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint; and

a result surfacing control system that generates a control signal to control surfacing of the application dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint.

19. The computing system of claim 18 wherein the application identifier control system comprises:

server location logic configured to identify the front end server system hosting the endpoint of the hosted application wherein the server location logic is configured to identify a plurality of front end server systems hosting the endpoint of the hosted application.

20. The computing system of claim 19 wherein the application identifier control system comprises:

remote access logic configured to remotely access each of the plurality of front end server systems and remotely run the application dependency identification system on log data in application accessing logs corresponding to each of the plurality of front end server systems to separately identify, in each of the plurality of front end server systems, the dependencies of the separate, requesting applications on the endpoint;

result transmission logic configured to transmit the separately identified dependencies from each of the plurality of front end server systems to the application identifier control system; and

result aggregation logic configured to aggregate the separately identified dependencies from each of the front end server systems into a single set of dependencies.