Systems and methods for progressively launching websites

• US 9,684,731 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2015
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Athale, Anant, Dasari, Srinivas V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Marina
• Application Number:
  US14/852,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20160019229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 717127
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3428 Benchmarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3612 by runtime analysis performance monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A method for progressively launching a website is disclosed. A production phase website may be launched or made available to a limited number of consumers. In addition, the performance of the production phase website may be evaluated based upon a comparison of the performance of the production phase website to a performance of the predecessor website. Further, the predecessor website may be replaced with the production phase website.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

launching, by a computer-based system, a production phase website to a first subset of consumers;

evaluating, by the computer-based system and using monitoring script, the performance of the production phase website based upon a comparison of the performance of the production phase web site to a performance of a predecessor web site,

wherein the performance is based on at least one of a website load time, a loading error or a web site error;

determining, by the computer-based system, that the evaluation meets pre-determined criteria;

launching, by the computer-based system, the production phase website to a second subset of consumers, in response to the evaluation meeting pre-determined criteria; and

replacing, by the computer based system, the predecessor website with the production phase web site for the first subset of consumers and the second subset of consumers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the launching the production phase website is on a soft launch server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the replacing the predecessor website with the production phase website is on a hard launch server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the launching the production phase website to the first subset of consumers, occurs while a predecessor website is still available to the second subset of consumers.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the performance is based upon the website load time, the loading error and the website error.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the launching to the first subset of consumers further comprises launching to at least one of a pre-determined list of consumers or a random percent of consumers that satisfy a profile.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising launching, by the computer-based system, the production phase website to the first subset of consumers at a first time and to the second subset of consumers at a second time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein any of the first subset of consumers request an override of the production phase website to replace the production phase website with the predecessor website.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the launching to the first subset of consumers further comprises limiting access by the first subset of consumers by at least one of providing the first subset of consumers with passwords to access the production phase website, sending a link to the production phase website to the first subset of consumers, redirecting the first subset of consumers to the production phase website based on a User-ID, redirecting the first subset of consumers to the production phase website based on consumer region, redirecting the first subset of consumers to the production phase website based on time of day, or redirecting the first subset of consumers to the production phase website based on number of users accessing the website.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the production phase website is evaluated based upon at least one of test data or production data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the launching to the first subset of consumers further comprises limiting access by the first subset of consumers by at least one of providing the first subset of consumers with passwords to access the production phase website, sending a link to the production phase website to the first subset of consumers, or redirecting the first subset of consumers to the production phase website based on number of users accessing the website.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the computer-based system, that the evaluation fails to meet pre-determined criteria;

rolling back, by the computer-based system, the production phase website to the predecessor web site for the first subset of consumers; and

re-launching, by the computer-based system, the production phase website to the first subset of consumers, while the predecessor web site is still available to the second subset of consumers.

13. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computer-based system, cause the computer-based system to perform operations comprising:

launching, by the computer-based system, a production phase website to a first subset of consumers;

evaluating, by the computer-based system and using monitoring script, the performance of the production phase website based upon a comparison of the performance of the production phase web site to a performance of a predecessor web site,

wherein the performance is based on at least one of a website load time, a loading error or a web site error;

determining, by the computer-based system, that the evaluation meets pre-determined criteria;

launching, by the computer-based system, the production phase website to a second subset of consumers, in response to the evaluation meeting pre-determined criteria; and

replacing, by the computer based system, the predecessor website with the production phase web site for the first subset of consumers and the second subset of consumers.

14. The article of claim 13, wherein the launching the production phase website is on a soft launch server.

15. The article of claim 13, wherein the replacing the predecessor website with the production phase website is on a hard launch server.

16. The article of claim 13, wherein the launching the production phase website to the first subset of consumers, occurs while a predecessor website is still available to the second subset of consumers.

17. The article of claim 13, further comprising:

determining, by the computer-based system, that the evaluation fails to meet pre-determined criteria;

rolling back, by the computer-based system, the production phase website to the predecessor web site for the first subset of consumers; and

re-launching, by the computer-based system, the production phase website to the first subset of consumers, while the predecessor web site is still available to the second subset of consumers.

18. A system comprising:

a tangible, non-transitory memory communicating with a processor configured for progressively launching a website,

the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations;

launching, by the processor, a production phase web site to a first subset of consumers;

evaluating, by the processor and using monitoring script, the performance of the production phase website based upon a comparison of the performance of the production phase web site to a performance of a predecessor web site,

wherein the performance is based on at least one of a website load time, a loading error or a web site error;

determining, by the processor, that the evaluation meets pre-determined criteria;

launching, by the processor, the production phase website to a second subset of consumers, in response to the evaluation meeting pre-determined criteria; and

replacing, by the processor, the predecessor website with the production phase website for the first subset of consumers and the second subset of consumers.