Single use server system

• US 7,725,531 B1
• Filed: 09/18/2007
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
• Original Assignee: George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
• Inventors: Huang, Yih, Sood, Arun, Arsenault, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan; Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thieu; Benjamin M
• Application Number:
  US11/857,055
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 709224-225, 709/203, 709/227, 709/229
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/173 using an interconnection network, e.g. matrix, shuffle, pyramid, star, snowflake
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5022 Mechanisms to release resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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

A system and method for processing a client request using single use virtual servers. The method: receives the client request from a network; passes the client request to a new virtual incoming client request server; passes an application request from the virtual incoming client request server to a new virtual application server; destroys the virtual incoming client request server; passes an application result from the virtual application server to a new virtual outgoing client result server; destroys the new virtual application server; passes the application result from the new virtual outgoing client request server to the network; and destroys the virtual outgoing client request server.

Claims

1. A single use server system comprising:

a) a connection to a network for receiving a client request;

b) an incoming client workload distributor configured to pass a client request from a network to a new virtual incoming client request server;

c) an incoming application workload distributor configured to pass an application request from the virtual incoming client request server to a new virtual application server;

d) persistent backend storage communicatively connected to the virtual application server;

e) an outgoing workload distributor configured to pass an application result from the virtual application server to a new virtual outgoing client request server; and

f) an outgoing client request workload distributor configured to pass the application result from the new virtual outgoing client result server to the network;

g) wherein the virtual incoming client request server is created on a hardware server, the hardware server being controlled by unidirectional incoming hardware SCIT controller; and

wherein;

i) the virtual incoming client request server is destroyed after delivering the application request;

ii) the virtual application server is destroyed after delivering the client result;

iii) the virtual outgoing client result server is destroyed after delivering the client result; and

iv) the application request includes client information.

2. The single use server system according to claim 1, wherein the virtual incoming client request server and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on the same hardware server.

3. The single use server system according to claim 1, wherein the virtual incoming client request server, the virtual application server, and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on the same hardware server.

4. The single use server system according to claim 1, wherein the virtual incoming client request server and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on different hardware servers.

5. The single use server system according to claim 1, wherein the virtual incoming client request server, the virtual application server, and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on different hardware servers.

6. The single use server system according to claim 1, wherein the destruction of the virtual incoming client request server is controlled by a SCIT controller.

7. The single use server system according to claim 1, wherein the hardware server hosts the creation and destruction of a multitude of virtual incoming client request servers.

8. The single use server system according to claim 1, wherein a bank of hardware servers is controlled by the SCIT controller.

9. A method for processing a client request using virtual servers, the method comprising:

a) receiving the client request from a network;

b) passing the client request to a new virtual incoming client request server;

c) passing an application request from the virtual incoming client request server to a new virtual application server;

d) destroying the virtual incoming client request server;

e) passing an application result from the virtual application server to a new virtual outgoing client result server;

f) destroying the new virtual application server;

g) passing the application result from the new virtual outgoing client result server to the network;

h) destroying the virtual outgoing client result server; and

g) the virtual incoming client request server is created on a hardware server, the hardware server being controlled by a unidirectional incoming hardware SCIT controller.

10. The method according to claim 9, further including the virtual application server interacting with a persistent backend storage.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the destruction of the virtual incoming client request server is initiated by a SCIT controller.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the destruction of the virtual application server is initiated by a SCIT controller.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the destruction of the virtual outgoing client result server is initiated by a SCIT controller.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the virtual incoming client request server and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on the same hardware server.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the virtual incoming client request server, the virtual application server, and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on the same hardware server.

16. The method according to claim 9, wherein the virtual incoming client request server and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on different hardware servers.

17. The method according to claim 9, wherein the virtual incoming client request server, the virtual application server, and the virtual outgoing client result server reside on different hardware servers.

18. The method according to claim 9, wherein a hardware server hosts the creation and destruction of a multitude of virtual incoming client request servers.

19. The method according to claim 9, wherein a hardware server hosts the creation and destruction of a multitude of virtual application servers.

20. The method according to claim 9, wherein a hardware server hosts the creation and destruction of a multitude of virtual outgoing client result servers.

21. The method according to claim 9, wherein a hardware server hosts a combination of at least two of the following:

a) virtual incoming client request servers,

b) virtual application servers; and

c) virtual outgoing client result servers.