Resource deployment based on conditions

• US 9,021,434 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Fortune, Erik, Hawkins, Rylan, Constable, Peter G., Chue, Sunggook, Chi, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Ben C
• Application Number:
  US13/926,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290930A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• US Class Current: 717/121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

Architecture that facilitates the package partitioning of application resources based on conditions, and the package applicability based on the conditions. An index is created for a unified lookup of the available resources. At build time of an application, the resources are indexed and determined to be applicable based on the conditions. The condition under which the resource is applicable is then used to automatically partition the resource into an appropriate package. Each resource package then becomes applicable under the conditions in which the resources within it are applicable, and is deployed to the user if the user merits the conditions (e.g., an English user will receive an English package of English strings, but not a French package). Before the application is run, the references to the resources are merged and can be used to do appropriate lookup of what resources are available.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

identifying conditions under which resources are applicable to a build of an application, the conditions define applicability information for associated resources of the application;

creating an index which enumerates the resources, references to resources, and conditions associated with the resources and references;

recognizing, using a processing device, tokens to find resources that meet specific applicability information of a resource package for the application; and

partitioning, using the processing device, the resources into the resource package for use by the application based on the associated conditions and partitioning of index indices;

wherein the partitioning includes determining whether to store a reference of the references in the resource package, and causing the reference to be stored in the resource package responsive to a result of the determination.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining attributes of a current runtime context and comparing the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for the resource package.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference is stored in the resource package, and wherein the reference is merged with another reference of the references before the resources are accessed at application runtime, and the merged are used to lookup available resources.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a new resource package is created when no resource has conditions that match other resources in the package.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource package is deployed based on the conditions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein if a resource has conditions that match conditions of another resource in the resource package, the resource and the reference are stored in the resource package.

7. A memory device having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

identifying conditions under which resources are applicable to a build of an application, the conditions define applicability information for associated resources of the application;

creating an index which enumerates the resources, references to resources, and conditions associated with the resources and references;

recognizing tokens to find resources that meet specific applicability information of a resource package for the application; and

partitioning the resources into the resource package for use by the application based on the associated conditions and partitioning of index indices;

wherein the partitioning includes determining whether to store a reference of the references in the resource package, and causing the reference to be stored in the resource package responsive to a result of the determination.

8. The memory device of claim 7, wherein the index stores metadata for the resource to enable detection of a change in the resource, enforce constraints on the resource, enforce licensing, and enforce authentication.

9. The memory device of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise recognizing tokens to find resources that meet specific applicability information of the resource package for the application.

10. The memory device of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise determining attributes of current runtime context and comparing the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for the resource package.

11. The memory device of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise determining attributes of a current runtime context and comparing the attributes to the applicability information to find associated conditions for the resource package.

12. The memory device of claim 7, wherein the reference is stored in the resource package, and wherein the reference is merged with another reference of the references before the resources are accessed at application runtime, and the merged references are used to lookup available resources.

13. The memory device of claim 7, wherein a new resource package is created when no resource has conditions that match other resources in the package.

14. The memory device of claim 7, wherein the resource package is deployed based on the conditions.

15. The memory device of claim 7, wherein the resources comprise user interface resources of the application.