Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140075019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE MANAGEMENT ENGINE FOR USE WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) can be instantiated as services within a cloud platform, where they are then made accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications. In an embodiment, a service management engine (SME), in communication with an orchestration engine, can be used to provision services as one or more different service types, according to a service definition package (SDP). Service types can be instantiated according to the configuration of the cloud platform itself, and the contents of the SDP, including discovering, provisioning, and associating service types with system resources, to address different customer requirements. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075412 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELASTICITY MANAGEMENT OF SERVICES WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for elasticity management of services for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud platform enables provisioning of enterprise software applications within a cloud environment, including packaging enterprise applications as service definition packages (SDP), and instantiating the services using service management engines (SME). In an embodiment, an elasticity manager can be used to determine the health of the services, and to take appropriate actions, including detecting events, issuing alerts and/or notifying the orchestration engine to manage the service lifecycle, e.g., to respond to an increased demand for particular services. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC MODIFICATION OF SERVICE DEFINITION PACKAGES WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for dynamic modification of service definition packages for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud platform enables provisioning of enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) within a cloud environment. In an embodiment, enterprise applications can be packaged as service definition packages (SDP). To support maintenance of services (e.g., bug fixes, security updates, and configuration changes), a service's characteristics and requirements can be modified dynamically, by reconfiguring the cloud platform itself and/or by mounting a disk volume that corresponds to the service's SDP, and modifying its contents directly. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE DEFINITION PACKAGES FOR USE WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for providing service definition packages for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud platform enables provisioning of enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware applications) within a cloud environment. In an embodiment, enterprise applications can be packaged as service definition packages (SDP). Each SDP can include an application binary component, a metadata defining the application's service characteristics and requirements, and a plugin that enables the SDP to be installed into the cloud platform. The SDP can also include a virtual assembly that defines a topology and configuration for a set of virtual appliances. The application, as defined by its SDP, can be instantiated as one or more services that are then accessible by other (e.g., customer) applications within the cloud environment. | 03-13-2014 |
20140280975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING CLOUD SERVICES USING A HYBRID SERVICE MANAGEMENT ENGINE PLUGIN - Described herein is a system and method for provisioning or controlling services using a hybrid service management engine (SME) plugin. In accordance with an embodiment, SMEs provide a means by which service types can be plugged into a cloud environment. For example, an SME can control a service-specific lifecycle, including provisioning, management, and monitoring of a service type. In accordance with an embodiment, an SME plugin associated with a service type can extend a hybrid SME plugin, to delegate one or more lifecycle operations to be controlled with shell or other scripts. Since a service provider can be associated with an SME that is used for the lifecycle and configuration of its services, the use of a hybrid SME plugin allows shell scripts to be leveraged to assist in the provisioning and control of those services. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY PATCHING IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - Described herein is a system and method for virtual assembly patching in a cloud environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a virtual assembly builder can be used to virtualize installed components in a reference environment, and then deploy those components into another destination environment. A user can capture the configuration and binaries of software components into software appliance artifacts, which can be grouped and their relationships defined as software assembly artifacts. In accordance with an embodiment, assemblies stored as disk images in a repository can be patched by creating replacement images, importing the replacement images into the virtualization environment, and then performing a replacement or swap of an instance's existing virtual disks, with patched versions of those disks. | 09-18-2014 |
20150089001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER MESSAGING SERVICE FOR USE WITH A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a user messaging service for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a notifier component, which receives information describing notifiable events that occur within the cloud environment during the provisioning of the enterprise applications, and communicates the information to a user messaging service at a user messaging server. The user messaging service is configured, according to one or more user communication preferences, to communicate to users, notifications describing the notifiable events, via one or more channels according to the preferences associated with the users. For example, a cloud account user can indicate a preference that status notifications for that user, such as completion of an operation or operational alerts, be communicated via one or more preferred channels, for example email, instant messaging, or social media. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUOTA MANAGEMENT IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for management of quota in a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a tenant manager component enables configuration and management of tenants within the cloud environment, wherein the tenants can utilize services and resources within the cloud environment. The tenant manager enables quotas to be associated with one or more tenants restricting their provisioning or usages of the services and resources. An elasticity manager component determines usage of the cloud environment services and resources by the one or more tenants, and provides usage information to the tenant manager, for use in managing the one or more tenants in accordance with their quotas. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089066 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TENANT MANAGEMENT IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing tenant management in a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a tenant manager component enables configuration and management of tenants that utilize services and resources within the cloud environment, including accessing information in a tenant store repository describing a plurality of tenants, and providing administrative isolation between the plurality of tenants. The tenant manager enables receiving administrative commands to configure or manage particular ones of the plurality of tenants, and applying the administrative commands to the particular tenants associated with the received administrative commands, for use in configuring or managing use by those tenants of the services and resources within the cloud environment. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE EXPIRATION IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing service expiration in a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of services which can be used by applications within the cloud environment, wherein the services can be associated with and utilize resources within the cloud environment. A service expiration component associates reservations with the services, periodically determines a status of the reservations and of any expired services associated therewith, and instructs the system to release the resources of expired services, for use by other services. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089068 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLOUD ENTITY INCLUDING SERVICE LOCKING IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for service locking in a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of services which can be used by applications within the cloud environment, wherein the services can be associated with and utilize resources within the cloud environment. A service locking component provides locking of a cloud entity, such as a service's configuration or usage of resources, including determining a requested configuration or usage by each of the services of resources, and if the requested configuration is not allowed, or the usage by a particular service reaches an allocation of resources for that service, instructing the system to lock the entity, for example the service, at its current configuration or usage of resources. | 03-26-2015 |
20150120886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE IMPORT/EXPORT IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for exporting and importing a PaaS service and associated configurations across service domains are provided. The system comprises a cloud platform component provided as an installable software suite within a cloud environment; a test to production (T2P) framework module that includes a PaaS plugin and a plurality of T2P plugins and tools; and a user interface where the plugins and tools can be invoked to export domain configurations from a source service domain, and import the domain configurations to a target domain. In accordance with an embodiment, the system further includes a service provider interface (SPI) that can be implemented by an SME of each service housed in a service domain, to provide service backup and restore functionalities for exporting and importing that service. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120889 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLONE SERVICE FOR USE WITH A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a clone a service in a cloud platform environment. The system can clone a source service within a service domain or across service domains, by creating a new service from a same service definition package used for creating the source service, extracting post-provision changes from the source service, e.g., user applications and post-provision configurations, and applying the changes to the new service. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEBTIER PROVIDERS IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - Described herein is a system and method for supporting a webtier provider in a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the service types made available in a cloud platform (e.g., CloudLogic) domain can include information which describes dependency on a webtier provider, which in turn provides load-balancing capability to a service whose deployment may span multiple virtual machines. A webtier provider can associate one or more provisioned services with a webtier runtime, to satisfy the webtier dependency of a service. After a service is provisioned, a webtier provider service management engine (SME) can associate the service with a webtier runtime by creating a configuration therein. The webtier runtime can subsequently provide a single point of access to the service, including load-balancing requests to service nodes, or providing support for additional capabilities such as failure detection and failover. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTITENANT SERVICE MANAGEMENT ENGINE IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing multitenancy support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment. A platform component enables a service runtime to be shared by multiple tenants, by providing each tenant with a dedicated share or slice of a runtime instance. Each share/slice can be isolated from other shares/slices with respect to factors such as, for example, configuration, or quality of service. In accordance with an embodiment, during provisioning of a particular service runtime, a runtime definition associated with the service runtime can be utilized, for example by a service management engine, to configure the platform component to install one or more services within the service runtime. A particular service and its service runtimes can also be provisioned, within one or more runtime pools, according to a service runtime definition and placement configuration. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEST TO PRODUCTION SUPPORT IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for replicating a source service domain to a target service domain in a cloud computing platform environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a cloud platform component provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, that supports provisioning of enterprise applications; a test to production (T2P) framework module that includes a plurality of T2P plugins and a PaaS plugin; and a user interface where an administrator or a user can invoke the plugins to replicate a source service domain to a target service domain. The system allows a user to manually customize move plans for service domain configurations based on the requirements of the target service domain, and recreate the configurations in the target service domain in accordance with the customized move plans. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACEMENT LOGIC IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing multitenancy support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment. A platform component enables a service runtime to be shared by multiple tenants, by providing each tenant with a dedicated share or slice of a runtime instance. Each share/slice can be isolated from other shares/slices with respect to factors such as, for example, configuration, or quality of service. In accordance with an embodiment, during provisioning of a particular service runtime, a runtime definition associated with the service runtime can be utilized, for example by a service management engine, to configure the platform component to install one or more services within the service runtime. A particular service and its service runtimes can also be provisioned, within one or more runtime pools, according to a service runtime definition and placement configuration. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTITENANCY IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing multitenancy support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment. A platform component enables a service runtime to be shared by multiple tenants, by providing each tenant with a dedicated share or slice of a runtime instance. Each share/slice can be isolated from other shares/slices with respect to factors such as, for example, configuration, or quality of service. In accordance with an embodiment, during provisioning of a particular service runtime, a runtime definition associated with the service runtime can be utilized, for example by a service management engine, to configure the platform component to install one or more services within the service runtime. A particular service and its service runtimes can also be provisioned, within one or more runtime pools, according to a service runtime definition and placement configuration. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SERVICE RESOURCES AND FEATURE SETS IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing service resources for consumption by an application deployed to a service in a cloud environment. A service definition package (SDP) for the service can specify a dependency on a provider, and include association rules that define actions to be taken with regard to a runtime of the provider. When the service is provisioned, a service resource type which is derived from a provider SDP can be associated with the service. As a result of the association, a service resource can be automatically created from the service resource type in accordance with the association rules, to provide resources for consumption by the application. In accordance with an embodiment, the provider SDP can include a plurality of feature sets associated with different sets of configurable properties, which allows different provider types or service resource types to be created. | 04-30-2015 |
20150121375 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PHYSICAL PLUGIN FOR USE IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for simulating a cloud environment on a physical platform. In an embodiment, a physical assembly is provided within a cloud environment and a physical plug-in configured to provide a virtual assembly builder-like environment on a physical platform. The physical assembly is an installable software suite including software configured to support provisioning of applications for providing services. The physical plug-in is configured to enable installation of the physical assembly on the physical platform. The physical plug-in is also configured to enable support for administering the services of the cloud platform component via the software installed from the physical assembly. | 04-30-2015 |
20150207758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTI-TENANCY IN AN APPLICATION SERVER, CLOUD, OR OTHER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, on-premise, or other environment, which enables categories of components and configurations to be associated with particular application instances or partitions. Resource group templates define, at a domain level, collections of deployable resources that can be referenced from resource groups. Each resource group is a named, fully-qualified collection of deployable resources that can reference a resource group template. A partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and contains one or more resource groups. Each resource group can reference a resource group template, to bind deployable resources to partition-specific values, for use by the referencing partition. A tenant of the application server or cloud environment can be associated with a partition, or applications deployed therein, for use by that tenant. | 07-23-2015 |
20150372937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A WORK MANAGER IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a work manager for use in an application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a system administrator can configure a partition work manager to provide partition work request prioritization (fair share value) to each partition within a multitenant application server environment. The system administrator can additionally configure the partition work manager to impose a minimum threads constraint limit, a partition capacity constraint, and/or a partition maximum threads constraint, all of which restrict the use of thread resources by the partitions within the environment. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARTITION MIGRATION IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for partition migration in a multitenant application server environment. Each resource group, or partition which includes that resource group, can be associated with a virtual target (e.g., virtual host) information that defines a target to which that resource group or partition should be targeted and deployed. A web tier component (e.g., Oracle Traffic Director) includes a routing information, which maps the virtual target for a partition to a corresponding target such as a server or cluster, so that requests for that partition are directed to the appropriate target, for example as part of one or more sessions. When a partition is migrated, session information is replicated between an original target and a new target, and the web tier component provided with a revised routing information, so that subsequent requests for that partition are directed to the new target. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PORTABLE PARTITIONS IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing portable partitions in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system enables a partition to be exported from first or source domain (e.g., a test domain), and imported into another second or target domain (e.g., a production domain). During creation or export of a partition archive, the partition archive is created which includes a partition configuration, resource group or resource group template information, and optionally application binaries. The partition archive can also include an interface that allows access to exportable or configurable values associated with the partition. During deployment or import of the partition archive to the target domain, the information in the partition archive, including the exportable or configurable values associated with the partition, are used to configure the partition for use in the target domain. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING PARTITIONS IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting partitions in a multitenant application server environment. In accordance with an embodiment, an application server administrator (e.g., a WLS administrator) can create or delete partitions; while a partition administrator can administer various aspects of a partition, for example create resource groups, deploy applications to a specific partition, and reference specific realms for a partition. Resource groups can be globally defined at the domain, or can be specific to a partition. Applications can be deployed to a resource group template at the domain level, or to a resource group scoped to a partition or scoped to the domain. The system can optionally associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by the tenant. | 12-24-2015 |
20160085543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING PATCHING IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting patching in a multi-tenant application server environment. The system can associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by that tenant, wherein a partition is a runtime and administrative subdivision or slice of a domain. A patching process can take advantage of high-availability features provided by an application server clustering environment, to apply patches in a controlled, rolling restart, which maintains a domain's ability to operate without interruption, or with zero downtime. The process can be used to automate complex or long running tasks, including preserving an unpatched or prior version of an application server, application, or other software component for possible rollback, or providing automatic reversion in the event of an unrecoverable error. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PARTITION FILE SYSTEM IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a partition file system in a multitenant application server environment. The system enables application server components to work with partition-specific files for a given partition, instead of or in addition to domain-wide counterpart files. The system also allows the location of some or all of a partition-specific storage to be specified by higher levels of the software stack. In accordance with an embodiment, also described herein is a system and method for resource overriding in a multitenant application server environment, which provides a means for administrators to customize, at a resource group level, resources that are defined in a resource group template referenced by a partition, and to override resource definitions for particular partitions. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLUSTERING IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting clustering in a multitenant application server environment. The system includes a domain with a plurality of server clusters, and a plurality of partitions, wherein each cluster is homogenously configured and targeted by one or more partitions. An application programming interface (API) can be used to initiate a resource group across-cluster migration within a partition. The API can invoke a replication manager, which queries a target cluster for a runtime topology for use in determining where to store primary session; migrates the primary session to a determined server instance in the target cluster. Additional clustering features, such as cluster messaging service, leasing service, singleton service management, session replication, clustered JNDI, and use of domain front-end load balancing, can be supported. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING LIFECYCLE PLUGINS IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multi-tenant application server environment. A lifecycle manager enables configuration integration across different components, for example application servers, traffic directors or load balancers, and database or other components, which may have their own partition-specific configurations. In accordance with an embodiment, the end-to-end lifecycle infrastructure includes a plugin-based mechanism which enables the different components within a multi-tenant application server environment to use a lifecycle plugin to provide their own component-specific lifecycle functionality. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for a tenant onboarding functionality, which can be used to onboard a tenant for a service to a particular partition. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports the use of a global runtime within the multi-tenant application server environment. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094484 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN END-TO-END LIFECYCLE IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multi-tenant application server environment. A lifecycle manager enables configuration integration across different components, for example application servers, traffic directors or load balancers, and database or other components, which may have their own partition-specific configurations. In accordance with an embodiment, the end-to-end lifecycle infrastructure includes a plugin-based mechanism which enables the different components within a multi-tenant application server environment to use a lifecycle plugin to provide their own component-specific lifecycle functionality. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for a tenant onboarding functionality, which can be used to onboard a tenant for a service to a particular partition. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports the use of a global runtime within the multi-tenant application server environment. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TENANT ONBOARDING IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multi-tenant application server environment. A lifecycle manager enables configuration integration across different components, for example application servers, traffic directors or load balancers, and database or other components, which may have their own partition-specific configurations. In accordance with an embodiment, the end-to-end lifecycle infrastructure includes a plugin-based mechanism which enables the different components within a multi-tenant application server environment to use a lifecycle plugin to provide their own component-specific lifecycle functionality. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for a tenant onboarding functionality, which can be used to onboard a tenant for a service to a particular partition. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports the use of a global runtime within the multi-tenant application server environment. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF A GLOBAL RUNTIME IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multi-tenant application server environment. A lifecycle manager enables configuration integration across different components, for example application servers, traffic directors or load balancers, and database or other components, which may have their own partition-specific configurations. In accordance with an embodiment, the end-to-end lifecycle infrastructure includes a plugin-based mechanism which enables the different components within a multi-tenant application server environment to use a lifecycle plugin to provide their own component-specific lifecycle functionality. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for a tenant onboarding functionality, which can be used to onboard a tenant for a service to a particular partition. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports the use of a global runtime within the multi-tenant application server environment. | 03-31-2016 |