Legacy application migration to real time, parallel performance cloud

• US 9,558,441 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2012
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UST Global (Singapore) Pte Ltd. (UST Global Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Pneuron Corp. (UST Global Incorporated)
• Inventors: McGrath, Christie Patrick, Bachelor, Douglas Wiley, Curbelo, Raul Hugo, Elkins, Elizabeth Winters, Moss, Simon Byford, Fountain, Thomas C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Onat, Umut
• Application Number:
  US13/442,353
• Publication Number:
  US 20120259909A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,758 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4843 by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 3/02 Neural networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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 10 that provides legacy software applications 12 to be incorporated into a massively parallel and distribution processing model in the Cloud, with a high performance parallel and distributed computing (cloud) “wrapper” 14 around legacy and current systems to enable, without legacy product code change or invasive addition/editing, the legacy product to access and fully utilize the power and ability of distributed computing within the cloud through a Pneuron “cortex” platform virtual server 10. The system and method also provides the ability to distribute multiple, concurrent instances of the legacy applications, dynamically manage the load volumes, and automatically create and remove new virtual machines based upon demand requirements.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

encapsulating a legacy software application within an exoskeleton connection service that is both configured to accept messages from a distributed processing service and mapped to an application programming interface of the legacy software application to create an encapsulated software object;

deploying a first instance of the encapsulated software object into a cloud computing environment that includes the distributed processing service;

receiving, by the first instance of the encapsulated software object and through the exoskeleton connection service, a processing request; and

initiating multi-threaded processing of the processing request.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deploying a second instance of the legacy software object to the cloud computing environment; and

executing, by the second instance of the legacy software object and in the cloud computing environment, a portion of the processing request.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first instance of the legacy software object and the second instance of the legacy software object each reside on different nodes of the cloud computing environment.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

using the distributed processing service to send the processing request to the first instance of the legacy software object.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

using the distributed processing service to send a portion of the processing request to the second instance of the legacy software object.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deploying, into the cloud computing environment, a dispatcher object that is configured to receive the processing request and send a portion of the processing request to a deployed instance of the encapsulated software object.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium bearing computer program instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform steps of a process, comprising:

encapsulating a legacy software application within an exoskeleton connection service that is both configured to accept messages from a distributed processing service and mapped to an application programming interface of the legacy software application to create an encapsulated software object;

deploying a first instance of the encapsulated software object into a cloud computing environment that includes the distributed processing service;

receiving, by the first instance of the encapsulated software object and through the exoskeleton connection service, a processing request; and

initiating multi-threaded processing of the processing request.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

executing, on a processor, computer program instructions to cause a computer to encapsulate a legacy software application within an exoskeleton connection service to create an encapsulated software object;

deploying a first instance of the encapsulated software object into a cloud computing environment that includes the distributed processing service;

receiving, by the first instance of the encapsulated software object and through the exoskeleton connection service, a processing request; and

initiating multi-threaded processing of the processing request;

wherein the exoskeleton connection service is configured to accept messages from a distributed processing service and is mapped to an application programming interface of the legacy software application.