TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROVISIONING A DATABASE OVER A WIDE AREA NETWORK

• US 20130290180A1
• Filed: 06/28/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Baffier, Jean-Louis, Dangeard, Marc, Gruet, Thierry, Ziegler, Olaf, Tan, Dean, Sechrest, Christina, Sero, Pascal, Walsh, Kevin
• Granted Patent: US 8,849,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1446 Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/02 for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls

Abstract

Techniques for provisioning databases for users on a wide area network such as the Internet include a first party managing one or more database systems. Second parties subscribe to database services supported by the managed database systems. The first party provides, over a network, to database applications of the second parties, access to database services to which the second parties are subscribed. The database systems may use database appliances hosting both database process(es), and non-database process(es) tailored to the needs of the database process(es). A user is therefore able to obtain database resources from an Internet Database Service Provider (IDSP) without incurring the full costs of database administrator(s), dedicated database equipment facilit(ies), or even dedicated database device(s), depending on usage. Meanwhile, the IDSP incurs minimum staffing loads because of self-service tools. Costing model and automatic billing are also described.

Claims

26-1. The system of claim 1,

further comprising a management component that automatically discovers new devices on an internal network and registers the new devices as being available for hosting the database server components and/or the database applications, whereby the new devices become part of the plurality of devices.