MOBILE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM IN A CLOUD BASED ARCHITECTURE

• US 20160062741A1
• Filed: 10/08/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Parse, Inc. (Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.))
• Inventors: JAYARAMAN, Shyamsundar, ADAMS, Henele Litaka, KLIMT, Bryan Jay, LACKER, Kevin David, MAJORS, Charity Hope, POLL, David Eitan, SUKHAR, Ilya, YU, James Jacob
• Granted Patent: US 9,552,275 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0757 by exceeding a time limit, i.e. time-out, e.g. watchdogs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3604 Software analysis for verifying properties of programs byte-code verification G06F9/44589
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/51 at application loading time, e.g. accepting, rejecting, starting or inhibiting executable software based on integrity or source reliability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers

Abstract

Embodiments are directed towards mobile application development in a cloud-based architecture. Mobile applications may be designed to communicate with a cloud platform over a network. Mobile application developers may be enabled to submit cloud code to cloud platforms for use by mobile applications. If cloud code is provided to a cloud platform, the cloud platform may perform one or more actions to authenticate the cloud code, such as, ensuring that that the user providing the cloud code is authorized to provide the cloud code. If the cloud code is authenticated the cloud platform may perform one or more actions to validate the cloud code. If validated, the cloud code may be activated for use by mobile applications and/or mobile application developers. Activation of the cloud code may include associating the cloud code with one or more function calls and/or with one or more trigger points.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, at a cloud platform device, a cloud code module;

identifying unsafe code in at least a portion of content of the cloud code module;

repairing, by the cloud platform device, the unsafe code;

associating the cloud code module with a function configured to execute the cloud code module, wherein subsequent communication from a mobile application includes a call to the function configured to execute the cloud code module; and

identifying at least one of a plurality of sandboxes to execute the cloud code module in the at least one identified sandbox when the function is called.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises replacing the unsafe code with safe code.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises inserting a fail safe condition into the unsafe code.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises overriding an unsafe function with a function comprising additional safety precautions.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises using built-in memory allocation limits when the programming language of the cloud code module allows for unbounded memory allocation.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises preventing buffers from being over written when the programming language of the cloud code module enables memory buffers to be overwritten.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein executing the cloud code module in the at least one of a plurality of sandboxes comprises generating a result to be provided to a mobile application over a network.

8. A cloud platform device, comprising:

a memory that is operative to store at least instructions; and

a processor device communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor device operative to execute instructions to;

receive a cloud code module at the cloud platform device;

identify unsafe code in at least a portion of content of the cloud code module based upon at least one code pattern;

repair the unsafe code; and

associate the cloud code module with a function configured to execute the cloud code module, wherein subsequent communication from a mobile application includes a call to the function configured to execute the cloud code module.

9. The cloud platform device of claim 8, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises replacing the unsafe code with safe code.

10. The cloud platform device of claim 8, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises inserting a fail safe condition into the unsafe code.

11. The cloud platform device of claim 8, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises overriding an unsafe function with a function comprising additional safety precautions.

12. The cloud platform device of claim 8, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises using built-in memory allocation limits when the programming language of the cloud code module allows for unbounded memory allocation.

13. The cloud platform device of claim 8, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises preventing buffers from being over written when the programming language of the cloud code module enables memory buffers to be overwritten.

14. The cloud platform device of claim 8, the processor device operative to execute instructions to identify at least one of a plurality of sandboxes to execute the cloud code module in the at least one identified sandbox when the function is called.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein that, when executed by a hardware processor, cause a system to:

receive a cloud code module at the cloud platform device;

identify unsafe code in at least a portion of content of the cloud code module based upon at least one code pattern;

repair the unsafe code;

associate the cloud code module with a function configured to execute the cloud code module, wherein subsequent communication from a mobile application includes a call to the function configured to execute the cloud code module; and

identify at least one of a plurality of sandboxes to execute the cloud code module in the at least one identified sandbox when the function is called.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises replacing the unsafe code with safe code.

17. The medium of claim 15, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises inserting a fail safe condition into the unsafe code.

18. The medium of claim 15, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises overriding an unsafe function with a function comprising additional safety precautions.

19. The medium of claim 15, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises using built-in memory allocation limits when the programming language of the cloud code module allows for unbounded memory allocation.

20. The medium of claim 15, wherein repairing the unsafe code further comprises preventing buffers from being over written when the programming language of the cloud code module enables memory buffers to be overwritten.