Automatic management of e-services

• US 7,509,418 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2002
• Issued: 03/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Yan, Yong, Kumar, Rajendra, Xu, Zhichen
• Primary Examiner(s): Dalencourt; Yves
• Application Number:
  US10/179,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20030236882A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,464 Days
• Field of Search: 709221-227
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/00 Arrangements for software engineering testing or debugging G06F11/36; administrative, planning or organisation aspects of software project management G06Q10/06

Abstract

A system for automatic management of an e-service which partitions an e-service life-cycle among operational functionalities and non-operational functionalities and tends to the operational functionalities, thereby reducing the development burden of an e-service and enabling e-service owners to stay more focused on business related issues. In addition, a system according to the present teachings facilitates the smooth transition among the phases of an e-service life-cycle and facilitates the partition of system functionality into physically distributed components.

Claims

1. A system for automatic management of an e-service comprising:

auto-deployment management component that creates a runtime e-service by automatically acquiring and configuring a set of resources in response to a logic design for the e-service that specifies a mapping between a set of services for the e-service and the resources;

runtime management component for detecting a violation of a system requirement for the e-service;

maintenance management component for determining an optimization for the e-service in response to the violation detected such that the auto-deployment management component conducts resource reallocation and service re-deployment to adjust behavior at runtime.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the auto-deployment management component generates a workable system in response to the logic design.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a logic design management component for generating the logic design in response to a specification for the e-service.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a repository of applications and services.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a resource management component for managing the resources.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the e-service is a system that provides electronic services to one or more clients via a network.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a virtual operating environment that encapsulates a life cycle of the e-service.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the virtual operating environment includes a logic design component and a maintenance component.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the auto-deployment management component re-acquires and re-configures the resources for the runtime e-service in response to a set of requirement update requests from the maintenance component.

10. The system of claim 7, further comprising a self-adjusting system that ensures service level agreements of the e-service.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the self-adjusting system ensures service level agreements by conducting continuous monitoring of the resources associated with the runtime e-service.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the self-adjusting system ensures service level agreements by conducting dynamic reallocation of the resources associated with the runtime e-service.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the self-adjusting system ensures service level agreements by conducting redeployment of a set of services associated with the runtime e-service.

14. The system of claim 10, further comprising a resource management system that provides interfaces that enable the self-adjusting system to query, acquire and release the resources for the runtime e-service.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising an application/service registration and outsourcing component for registering a set of applications and services which are available for supporting the runtime e-service.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising a repository having a set of design tools for use in creating the logic design.

17. A method for automatic management of an e-service comprising:

creating a runtime e-service by automatically acquiring and configuring a set of resources in response to a logic design for the e-service that specifies a mapping between a set of services for the e-service and the resources;

detecting a violation of a system requirement for the e-service;

determining an optimization for the e-service in response to the violation detected and in response adjusting runtime behavior by conducting resource reallocation and service re-deployment.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising generating the logic design in response to a specification for the e-service.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising ensuring service level agreements by conducting continuous monitoring of the resources associated with the runtime e-service.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising redesigning the e-service in response to the optimization.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein automatically acquiring and configuring comprises generating a virtual resource graph that provides a mapping between services and resources for the e-service.

22. The method of claim 17, further comprising registering a set of applications and services which are available for supporting the runtime e-service.