Systems and methods for dynamically deploying an application transformation tool over a network

• US 8,671,222 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2010
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: smartShift Technologies GmbH (Cambridge Technology Enterprises Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: smartShift Technologies GmbH (Cambridge Technology Enterprises Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gass, Albrecht, Faradouris, Nikolaos, Flach, Oliver, Hetges, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phuoc
• Assistant Examiner(s): John, Clarence
• Application Number:
  US12/777,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20110282995A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,400 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 709/246
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

The present application is directed towards systems and methods for dynamically deploying an application transformation tool over a network for analyzing and transforming an application from a source installation to a target installation. By using a cloud service for application transformation, the system can provide both flexibility in deployment and advantages in parallel and concurrent processing and transformation of objects of the application.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically deploying an application transformation tool over a network to transform an application, the method comprising:

(a) receiving, by a service executing on one or more servers, via a network from a remote client a request to establish an instance of an application transformation tool;

(b) dynamically establishing, by the service, the instance of the application transformation tool on one or more servers accessible by the remote client via the network;

(c) receiving, by the instance of the application transformation tool via the network a plurality of objects from a first instance of the application; and

(d) transforming, by the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects to provide a set of transformed objects for a second instance of the application by parsing the objects for conformance with one or more rules, generating transformed objects according to the rules, comparing the untransformed objects and transformed objects, customizing the one or more rules responsive to the comparison, and providing the plurality of transformed objects to the second instance of the application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) further comprises receiving the request from the remote client in communication with a device running the instance of the application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) further comprises receiving the request from a communication agent executing on the remote client in communication with the instance of the application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) further comprises requesting, by the service, a cloud service to establish one or more resources for establishing the instance of the application transformation tool.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein step (b) further comprises initiating, by the service, execution of the instance of the application transformation tool using the one or more resources.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) further comprises establishing, by the server, the instance of the application transformation tool exclusive to the requestor.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) further comprises receiving, by the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects via a virtual private network connection to the first instance of the application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) further comprises receiving, by the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects via a virtual private network connection to the remote client, the remote client in communication with the first instance of the application.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein step (c) further comprises obtaining, by a collection agent of the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects from the first instance of the application.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein step (d) further comprises transforming, by the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects to the set of transformed objects by applying a plurality of transformation rules.

11. A method for using via a network an application transformation service to transform an application, the method comprising:

(a) receiving, by an application transformation service executing on one or more servers, via a network from a remote client a request to transform an instance of an application;

(b) receiving, by the application transformation service, via the network a plurality of objects from the instance of the application;

(c) requesting, by the application transformation service, a cloud service to execute a transformation function on a first set of objects of the plurality of objects using a first set of computational resources by parsing the objects for conformance with one or more rules, generating transformed objects according to the rules, comparing the untransformed objects and transformed objects, customizing the one or more rules responsive to the comparison, and providing the plurality of transformed objects to a target installation of the application; and

(d) requesting, by the application transformation service, the cloud service to execute the transformation function on a second set of objects of the plurality of objects using a second set of computational resources by parsing the objects for conformance with one or more rules, generating transformed objects according to the rules, comparing the untransformed objects and transformed objects, customizing the one or more rules responsive to the comparison, and providing the plurality of transformed objects to a target installation of the application.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein step (a) further comprises receiving the request from the remote client in communication with a device running the instance of the application.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein step (a) further comprises receiving the request from a communication agent executing on the remote client in communication with the instance of the application.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein step (b) further comprises receiving, by the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects via a virtual private network connection to the first instance of the application.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein step (b) further comprises receiving, by the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects via a virtual private network connection to the remote client, the remote client in communication with the first instance of the application.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein step (b) further comprises obtaining, by a collection agent of the instance of the application transformation tool, the plurality of objects from the first instance of the application.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein step (c) further comprises determining, by the application transformation service, the first set of objects from the plurality of objects to process using the first set of computational resources.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein step (d) further comprises determining, by the application transformation service, the second set of objects from the plurality of objects to process using the second set of computational resources.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising aggregating, by the application transformation services, results of performing the transformation function on each of the first set of objects and the second set of objects.