Dynamic application adaptation in software-as-a-service platform

• US 8,635,673 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2011
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ServiceNow Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Anand, Rangachari, Hobson, Stacy F., Lee, Juhnyoung, Yang, Jeaha
• Primary Examiner(s): Abrishamkar, Kaveh
• Application Number:
  US13/163,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20120324539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application

Abstract

Dynamic application adaptation in software-as-a-service platform, in one aspect, may receive an access permission associated with a published shared data management data object in the software-as-a-service platform having shared data management and a plurality of applications deployed, look up one or more rules associated with one or more features of an application deployed on the software-as-a-service platform, based on the received access permission, and activate or deactivate said one or more features associated with said plurality of applications based on said one or more rules.

Claims

1. A method for dynamic application adaptation in software-as-a-service platform, comprising:

receiving an access permission associated with a published shared data management data object in the software-as-a-service platform having shared data management managing a plurality of data objects and a plurality of applications deployed, the plurality of applications sharing the plurality of data objects;

looking up one or more rules associated with one or more features of an application deployed on the software-as-a-service platform, based on the received access permission to the published shared data management data object; and

activating or deactivating said one or more features associated with said plurality of applications based on said one or more rules, the one or more rules comprising one or more of disabling a presentation layer'"'"'s input field, not displaying an attribute of the published shared data management data object by a presentation layer, or changing persistence layer'"'"'s database access patterns of the persistence layer'"'"'s own database.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving an access permission step includes receiving notification that the access permission has changed, and the activating or deactivating step includes dynamically activating or deactivating said one or more features based on said change in permission.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said one or more features are associated with one or more of presentation layer or program logic layer or persistence layer of the application, or combinations thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving an access permission step includes continually checking the shared data management for changes in the access permission.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the access permission is changed as a result of one or more applications being removed from the plurality of applications deployed on the software-as-a-service platform.

6. The method of claim 1, further including:

testing the activated or deactivated one or more features on a workspace.

7. The method of claim 6, further including:

deploying said application with the tested activated or deactivated one or more features on a portal of the software-as-a-service platform.

8. A system for dynamic application adaptation in software-as-a-service platform, comprising:

a processor;

a permission adaptation harness module operable to execute on the processor and receive an access permission associated with a published shared data management data object in the software-as-a-service platform having shared data management managing a plurality of data objects and a plurality of applications deployed, the plurality of applications sharing the plurality of data objects the permission adaptation harness module further operable to look up one or more rules associated with one or more features of an application deployed on the software-as-a-service platform, based on the received access permission to the published shared data management data object, and further activate or deactivate said one or more features associated with said plurality of applications based on said one or more rules, the one or more rules comprising one or more of disabling a presentation layer'"'"'s input field, not displaying an attribute of the published shared data management data object by a presentation layer, or changing persistence layer'"'"'s database access patterns of the persistence layer'"'"'s own database.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the permission adaptation harness module is operable to receive notification that the access permission has changed, and in response dynamically activates or deactivates said one or more features based on said change in permission.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein said one or more features are associated with one or more of presentation layer or program logic layer or persistence layer of the application, or combinations thereof.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the permission adaptation harness module continually checks the shared data management for changes in the access permission.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the access permission is changed as a result of one or more applications being removed from the plurality of applications deployed on the software-as-a-service platform.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the permission adaptation harness module is provided as a library function to which said plurality of applications can link.

14. The system of claim 8, further including:

a workspace for testing the activated or deactivated one or more features.

15. The system of claim 14, further including:

a portal associated with the software-as-a-service platform for deploying said application with the tested activated or deactivated one or more features.

16. A computer readable storage medium, excluding a signal per se, storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of for dynamic application adaptation in software-as-a-service platform, comprising:

receiving an access permission associated with a published shared data management data object in the software-as-a-service platform having shared data management managing a plurality of data objects and a plurality of applications deployed, the plurality of applications sharing the plurality of data objects;

looking up one or more rules associated with one or more features of an application deployed on the software-as-a-service platform, based on the received access permission to the published shared data management data object; and

activating or deactivating said one or more features associated with said plurality of applications based on said one or more rules, the one or more rules comprising one or more of disabling a presentation layer'"'"'s input field, not displaying an attribute of the published shared data management data object by a presentation layer, or changing persistence layer'"'"'s database access patterns of the persistence layer'"'"'s own database.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the receiving an access permission step includes receiving notification that the access permission has changed, and the activating or deactivating step includes dynamically activating or deactivating said one or more features based on said change in permission.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein said one or more features are associated with one or more of presentation layer or program logic layer or persistence layer of the application, or combinations thereof.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the receiving an access permission step includes continually checking the shared data management for changes in the access permission.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the access permission is changed as a result of one or more applications being removed from the plurality of applications deployed on the software-as-a-service platform.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, further including:

testing the activated or deactivated one or more features on a workspace.

22. The computer readable storage medium of claim 21, further including:

deploying said application with the tested activated or deactivated one or more features on a portal of the software-as-a-service platform.