Systems and methods to uniquely identify assets in a federation
First Claim
1. A method for uniquely identifying assets in a federation comprising a plurality of distributed platforms that each operate a set of servers for serving at least some of said assets, the method comprising:
- at a first distributed platform of the plurality of distributed platforms, providing an interface for a customer of the first distributed platform to specify an alias to identify assets of the customer that are to be served by a server that is operated by a second distributed platform;
verifying by the first distributed platform that said alias is unique with respect to other aliases that have been configured to identify assets of other customers whose assets are served by the set of servers operated by the second distributed platform;
configuring said alias into a traffic management server of the first distributed platform to identify assets of said customer when said alias is unique relative to the other aliases that have been configured to identify the assets that are served by the set of servers operated by the second distributed platform; and
preventing configuration of said alias when said alias is not unique relative to the other aliases that have been configured to identify the assets that are served by the set of servers operated by the second distributed platform.
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Abstract
Some embodiments provide different frameworks that implement conflict avoidance systems and methods for ensuring uniqueness in identifying assets for different customers that are deployed to server capacity of one or more distributed platforms participating in a federation. Specifically, different frameworks are provided whereby the distributed platforms authorize use of a domain before configuring the domain to identify assets of a customer. A method performed in one such framework includes receiving a domain that is specified for identifying assets of a first customer belonging to a first distributed platform of the federation. The method determines whether the domain conflicts with a domain that is configured by a second distributed platform of the federation. The method then communicates with the first distributed platform (i) to configure the received domain when there is no conflict and (ii) to prevent the first distributed platform from configuring the received domain when there is a conflict.
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1. A method for uniquely identifying assets in a federation comprising a plurality of distributed platforms that each operate a set of servers for serving at least some of said assets, the method comprising:
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at a first distributed platform of the plurality of distributed platforms, providing an interface for a customer of the first distributed platform to specify an alias to identify assets of the customer that are to be served by a server that is operated by a second distributed platform; verifying by the first distributed platform that said alias is unique with respect to other aliases that have been configured to identify assets of other customers whose assets are served by the set of servers operated by the second distributed platform; configuring said alias into a traffic management server of the first distributed platform to identify assets of said customer when said alias is unique relative to the other aliases that have been configured to identify the assets that are served by the set of servers operated by the second distributed platform; and preventing configuration of said alias when said alias is not unique relative to the other aliases that have been configured to identify the assets that are served by the set of servers operated by the second distributed platform. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for uniquely identifying assets in a federation comprising a plurality of distributed platforms that each operate a set of servers for serving at least some of said assets, the method comprising:
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receiving a domain specified for use in identifying assets of a first customer belonging to a first distributed platform of the plurality of distributed platforms; determining whether said domain conflicts with at least one domain that is already configured by a second distributed platform of the plurality of distributed platforms for use in identifying assets of a second customer whose assets are served by a server that is operated by the second distributed platform; communicating with the first distributed platform to cause said first distributed platform to configure the received domain for use in identifying assets of the first customer when there is no conflict determined for the received domain; and communicating with the first distributed platform to prevent said first distributed platform from configuring the received domain when the received domain conflicts with at least one domain that is already configured by the second distributed platform. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for uniquely identifying assets in a federation comprising a plurality of distributed platforms that each operate a set of servers for serving at least some of said assets, the method comprising:
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assigning a first domain for use in identifying assets for a particular customer of a first distributed platform of the plurality of distributed platforms; receiving a second domain to serve as an alias to the first domain; determining whether the second domain conflicts with any domain that a second distributed platform of the plurality of distributed platforms has configured when said assets of the particular customer are to be deployed to server capacity of the second distributed platform; and configuring said second domain to serve as an alias to the first domain when there is no conflict. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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