Hybrid application environments including hosted applications and application servers for interacting with data in enterprise environments

• US 9,887,872 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2012
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Banerjee, Atanu, Narayanan, Venkatesh, Yadav, Vinay, Kamath, Rajesh, Toola, Sivashankar
• Primary Examiner(s): Hussain, Tauqir
• Assistant Examiner(s): Grijalva Lobos, Boris D
• Application Number:
  US13/549,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20140019516A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,034 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-203, 709217, 709219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating hybrid application environments. In at least one implementation, an application server within a hosting environment receives a data request initiated by a hosted application within the hosting environment. The hosted application may initiate the data request in response to a page request made on behalf of a hosted identity logged into the hosting environment. The application server generates a hybrid data request based on request information comprising at least a portion of the data request and the hosted identity and directs the hybrid data request over a connection established between the hosting environment and an enterprise environment for handling by an application server within the enterprise environment.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating a hybrid application environment, the method comprising:

in a first application server within a hosting environment, receiving a data request initiated by a hosted application hosted on the first application server within the hosting environment in response to a page request made on behalf of a hosted identity external to and logged into the hosting environment in order to gain access to the hosted application;

in the first application server, generating a hybrid data request based on request information comprising at least a portion of the data request and the hosted identity;

in the first application server, directing the hybrid data request over a connection established between the hosting environment and an enterprise environment for handling by a second application server within the enterprise environment;

in the second application server, handling the hybrid data request using on-premises credentials;

in the second application server, receiving a second data request initiated by an enterprise application within the enterprise environment in response to a second page request made on behalf of the enterprise identity logged into the enterprise environment;

in the second application server, generating a second hybrid data request based on second request information comprising the second data request and the hosted identity associated with the enterprise identity; and

in the second application server, directing the second hybrid data request over a connection established between the hosting environment and the enterprise environment for handling by the first application server within the hosting environment.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

in the first application server, receiving a second data request initiated by a second hosting application within the hosting environment in response to a second page request made on behalf of the hosted identity logged into the hosting environment; and

in the first application server, handling the second data request by retrieving second data from a hosted data source within the hosting environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the hybrid data request further comprises user credentials, further comprising:

in the second application server, mapping the hosted identity to an enterprise identity using the user credentials;

in the second application server, obtaining the on-premises credentials based on the enterprise identity.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein handling the hybrid data request comprises retrieving data from an enterprise data source accessible through the enterprise environment using the enterprise identity.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein handling the hybrid data request comprises generating a hybrid data reply to the hybrid data request comprising the data retrieved from the enterprise data source.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising, in the hosted application, generating a response to the page request for delivery to a web browsing application that originated the page request, wherein the response comprises a web page including the data retrieved from the enterprise data source.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein handling the second hybrid data request comprises retrieving second data from a hosted data source accessible through the hosting environment using the hosted identity.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein handling the second hybrid data request 4 comprises generating a second hybrid data reply to the second hybrid data request comprising the second data retrieved from the hosted data source.

9. One or more storage devices having stored thereon program instructions for facilitating a hybrid application environment, the program instructions comprising:

first program instructions that, when executed by a computing system direct the computing system to;

process a data request, initiated by a hosted application hosted on a first application server within a hosting environment in response to a page request made on behalf of a hosted identity external to and logged into the hosting environment in order to gain access to the hosted application, to generate a hybrid data request based on request information comprising at least a portion of the data request and the hosted identity;

direct the hybrid data request over a connection established between the hosting environment and an enterprise environment for handling by a second application server within the enterprise environment;

handle the hybrid data request using on-premises credentials;

receive in the second application server a second data request initiated by an enterprise application within the enterprise environment in response to a second page request made on behalf of an enterprise identity logged into the enterprise environment;

generate in the second application server a second hybrid data request based on second request information comprising the second data request and the hosted identity associated with the enterprise identity; and

direct in the second application server the second hybrid data request over the connection established between the hosting environment and the enterprise environment for handling by the first application server within the hosting environment.

10. The one or more storage devices of claim 9 wherein the first program instructions further direct the computing system to, responsive to a second data request initiated by a second hosted application within the hosting environment in response to a second page request made on behalf of the hosted identity logged into the hosting environment, retrieve second data from a hosted data source within the hosting environment.

11. The one or more storage devices of claim 10 wherein the first program instructions further direct the computing system to render a configuration menu for presentation during installation of the hosted application and receive configurable handling information input through the configuration menu specifying for data requests initiated by the hosted application to be directed to the enterprise environment.

12. The one or more storage devices a of claim 11 wherein the first program instructions further direct the first application server to render a second configuration menu for presentation during installation of the second hosted application and receive second configurable handling information input through the second configuration menu specifying for second data requests initiated by the second hosted application to be handled within the hosting environment.