Application function conversion to a service

• US 9,934,019 B1
• Filed: 12/16/2014
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gebhard, Derek Steven, Crocker, Noah Emmanuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Chavis, John
• Application Number:
  US14/572,661
• Time in Patent Office: 1,204 Days
• Field of Search: 717171
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/51 Source to source
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications

Abstract

Technology for converting an application function to a service is provided. In one example, a method may include analyzing an application to identify a function of the application including logic. The method may further include extracting the function from the application. The function may be uploaded to a service provider environment to be implemented as an application service. A function access wrapper for the function may be retrieved from the service provider environment. The function access wrapper may be configured to call the application service in the service provider environment to execute the logic in the service provider environment and to receive a result of execution of the logic from the application service. The function access wrapper may be inserted into the application in the place of the function.

Claims

1. A computing system that is configured to convert a function of an application to an application service, comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory in electronic communication with the at least one processor;

instructions stored in the at least one memory, the instructions being executable by the at least one processor to;

analyze an application;

identify a portion of the application including logic, the portion being movable from the application and the portion being within a class of the application and accessible from outside the class configured for local execution on a client device;

extract the portion from the application;

send the portion to a service provider environment to be setup as at least part of an application service;

receive a function access wrapper for the portion, the function access wrapper being configured to call the application service in the service provider environment to execute the logic in the service provider environment and to receive a result of execution of the logic from the application service; and

insert the function access wrapper into the application in place of the portion from the application.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the portion of the application is a function that is accessible from outside of an object oriented programming class, the application being programmed in an object oriented programming language.

3. The computing system of claim 1, further configured to retrieve a second function access wrapper associated with the application service from the service provider environment, the second function access wrapper being configured for insertion into a second application.

4. The computing system of claim 3, wherein the application is a first application configured for use on a first operating system, and wherein the second application is a version of the first application configured for use on a second operating system.

5. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

analyzing an application to identify a portion of the application including logic the portion being movable from the application and the portion being within a class of the application and accessible from outside the class, using at least one processor;

extracting the portion from the application, using the at least one processor;

sending the portion to a service provider environment to be configured as at least part of an application service;

receiving a function access wrapper for the portion, the function access wrapper being configured to call the application service in the service provider environment to execute the logic in the service provider environment and to receive a result of execution of the logic from the application service; and

inserting the function access wrapper into the application in place of the portion.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising retrieving a second function access wrapper from the service provider environment, and inserting the second function access wrapper into a second application.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the application is a first application configured for use on a first operating system, and wherein the second application is a version of the first application configured for use on a second operating system, the second application being configured to communicate with the application service via an application programming interface, and wherein the second application and the application service are programmed in different programming languages.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the logic is independent of a user interface.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the function is accessible from outside of an object class.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the application service is executed in a virtual machine in the service provider environment.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising detecting a type of code in the application and selecting the virtual machine based on the type of code in the application.

12. The method of claim 5, further comprising, identifying code in the application used to send or receive requests and including the code in the function access wrapper.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein the logic is business logic.

14. The method of claim 5, wherein the function access wrapper is an SDK (software development kit), the method further comprising providing a prompt for display prompting a user to retrieve additional SDKs for a plurality of different computing platforms.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, implement a system, comprising:

an application analysis module configured to analyze an application for execution on a local device to identify a portion of the application capable of being executed remotely from the local device at a service provider environment wherein the portion is movable from the application and the portion being within a class of the application and accessible from outside the class;

a function extraction module configured to extract the portion from the application;

a function access wrapper module configured to generate a function access wrapper for inclusion in the application in place of the portion; and

a network service module configured to communicate the function access wrapper to the local device.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the portion is a public function.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the application is a completed software application.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising a page module configured to provide a page including links for downloading a plurality of different function access wrappers configured for use on different computing platforms.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising a functions data store configured to store a plurality of functions for use as application services for multiple different applications.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising a wrappers data store configured to store a plurality of function access wrappers for use on a plurality of different computing platforms.