189 results about "Service catalog" patented technology

The present invention provides a system and method for provisioning Cloud services by establishing a Cloud services catalog using a Cloud service bus within a Cloud computing environment. In one embodiment, there is a Cloud services catalog manager configured to connect a plurality of Clouds in a Cloud computing environment; maintain a catalog of integrated Cloud services from the plurality of connected Clouds; and display an index of the integrated services on a user interface. Using this system and method will allow for multiple disparate services, offered by different partners, across unrelated, physically distinct Clouds to be presented as an index of integrated services.

A cloud service brokerage system includes an electronic cloud service catalog containing cloud service defining information for a plurality of cloud services and a cloud service store coupled to the electronic cloud service catalog. The cloud service store includes cloud service publications each representing cloud service functionality corresponding to one or more of the cloud services. The cloud service store includes a user interface structure enabling generation of cloud service orders each including one or more of the cloud service publications.

A method and associated system of automatically generating an entry of a service catalog of a cloud-computing environment as a function of discovered attributes of a virtual machine provisioned in a non-cloud computing environment. A cloud-management platform of the cloud-computing environment analyzes and compares results of infrastructure-discovery and application-discovery tools that describe a business application or a virtual service provisioned on the virtual machine. The cloud-management platform, or a related service-catalog generating entity, uses these analyzed and compared results to automatically generate a service-catalog entry that represents or describes a cloud business application or service associated with the virtual machine, and enters the automatically generated entry into the service catalog. When a user of the cloud-computing environment requests the cloud business application or service, the cloud-management platform may then offer the business application or service as a function of the automatically generated entry.

A framework of a service directory that can handle service records changing rapidly is provided by using a content-based routing network. A directory node for providing the service directory is called a data resolver. The data resolver listens for service advertisements for certain service categories from service providers, and stores such advertisement data in the form of service records in a local cache. If a data resolver receives a query for some services, it first looks in the cache. If the cache contains at least one service record that satisfies the query, the data resolver returns the record. Otherwise, the data resolver issues a secondary query corresponding to the query it received, to other data resolvers connected by the content-based routing network. Simultaneously, the data resolver begins listening for service advertisements (service records) from other data resolvers on the content-based routing network.

An apparatus for managing risk within an organization includes four modules. An enterprise builder module enables a user to enter and store data regarding one or more reporting entities within the organization. A products and services catalog module enables a user to enter and store data regarding one or more products or services within the organization and to associate each of the one or more products or services with at least one of the one or more reporting entities defined in the enterprise builder module. A compliance obligation inventory module enables a user to enter and store data regarding one or more compliance obligations and to relate each of the one or more compliance obligations to at least one product or service of the one or more products or services defined in the products and services catalog module. A compliance risk assessment module enables a user to conduct a risk assessment for unique combinations of products or services, compliance obligations and reporting units; aggregate risk assessments over an entire reporting unit; and consolidate risk assessments over multiple reporting units.

A process for assisting a user to order the IT services the user wants even if the user is not familiar with the proper IT terminology or concepts. The process comprises: displaying an IT services catalog; determining if a user that wishes to order an IT service selects an option for computer assistance in selecting a service action; if a user requests assistance, displaying questions in an order dictated by a decision tree defined in advance by an IT professional, and traversing the decision tree based upon answers provided by the user via computer input devices until one or more recommendations for service actions have been encountered; gathering all recommended service actions and filling in fields in a data structure based upon answers given by said user; upon completion of step 3, or if said user does not request assistance in step 2, soliciting said user to fill in all unpopulated fields of a data structure defining one or more service actions which are either selected by the user or which have been recommended by processing the decision tree and validating all user data input.

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for deploying and instantiating multiple instances of applications in automated data centers using an application deployment template. A first mechanism is provided to deploy multiple instances of applications using an application deployment plan template. The first mechanism uses deployment parameter sets to generate corresponding deployment plans based on the deployment template. A second mechanism is provided to instantiate multiple instances of applications using deployment plan templates. A service catalog that is exposed to consumers for selection of catalog items is built on top of the second mechanism. During the cataloging and order fulfillment process, the second mechanism instantiates multiple instances of applications using the generated deployment plans and an application model to deploy multiple application instances. An existing order may also be modified or terminated responsive to a user request or service term expiration.

A system and method are disclosed for creating, controlling and enhancing a life-cycle of at least one stage for a rich-content repository, such as a catalog of products and services. The item data is received from a source and is processed in accordance with a User-defined life-cycle, finally being published / syndicated as rich-content. At User direction, the rich-content life-cycle can include one or more stages such as item data receipt from a supplier, transformation under control of User-defined functions, and publication / syndication of the transformed, i.e., rich-content data. Maintenance of rich-content repositories is likewise provided using a User-defined life-cycle having User-defined functions.

This method and system allow a subscriber to a cable television service to receiving a listing or menu of programming available for that subscriber's set-top terminal to upgrade or enhance the features available over the cable system. A Directory of Services (DoS) message is transmitted over the cable system to the subscriber's set-top terminal. The terminal can then display for the subscriber the menu of programming available. This display may include a price for downloading each programming object. The subscriber can then, using a remote control unit or a user input device on the terminal, direct the set-top terminal to acquire a listed programming object. The DoS message will provide information enabling the set-top terminal to download the indicated programming object from the cable system in response to the subscriber's input. The subscriber can then have immediate access to upgraded or enhanced programming, the purchase of which is billed to the subscriber's account.

Methods and apparatus for facilitating consumption of services via a services network are described. Access is provided to a services directory which identifies a plurality of services and at least one connector for facilitating consumption of each of the services via the network. Each connector is operable to mediate communication protocol and business policy differences between a first network end point associated with the corresponding service and a second network end point associated with a consumer of the service. For each of selected ones of the connectors, information accessible via the services directory is provided regarding how to use the connector to consume the corresponding service. For each of selected ones of the services, access to a connector design process is provided via the services directory. The connector design process is operable to facilitate creation of a new connector for the corresponding service, and to specify at least one business process for mediating the business policy differences.

Methods on objects in a distributed environment are accessed and invoked on a system including a plurality of server objects instantiated in the environment in the same address domain, which share a same user directory and authentication system, are on a same user network, and are administered by a single administration team. A service catalog is provided for cataloging a plurality of objects as nodes on a tree, objects including the plurality of servers objects within the distributed environment. A document file is provided for encapsulating cataloged relationships of server objects in the distributed environment and for storing object attributes generated by traversing the tree.

The invention discloses a cloud native application platform construction method based on a Kubernetes technology. The cloud native application platform construction method comprises the following specific steps: A, defining and managing host, storage and network system resources; B, creating a Kubernetes cluster, wherein the Kubernetes cluster is used for deploying containerized application services; C, creating an application service and a service directory, constructing an application program into a micro-service, and running the micro-service on a containerization and dynamic arrangement platform; D, optimizing a platform service architecture; and E, configuring a monitoring and log acquisition system for automatic operation and maintenance and data analysis. According to the method, the unified technical capability reuse can be realized only by sequentially combining and packaging the steps by utilizing the existing open source technology and then carrying out online, configurationand arrangement on the internal application software according to the steps, so that the function stability and the high availability of the overall delivery software are improved, and the research and development cost and the resource management cost are reduced.

A framework of a service directory that can handle service records changing rapidly is provided by using a content-based routing network. A directory node for providing the service directory is called a data resolver. The data resolver listens for service advertisements for certain service categories from service providers, and stores such advertisement data in the form of service records in a local cache. If a data resolver receives a query for some services, it first looks in the cache. If the cache contains at least one service record that satisfies the query, the data resolver returns the record. Otherwise, the data resolver issues a secondary query corresponding to the query it received, to other data resolvers connected by the content-based routing network. Simultaneously, the data resolver begins listening for service advertisements (service records) from other data resolvers on the content-based routing network.

A service discovery protocol is provided for use in personal area networks and other ad-hoc networking environments. The service discovery protocol is specifically designed to take into account the dynamic network configurations, bandwidth constraints as well as other characteristics of these types of networks. One of the key differentiators of the service discovery protocol is that it relies on a dynamically selected service directory device to manage the amount of information being distributed in the network.

A system and a method providing a user with a plurality of services related to physical objects. A mobile device, which detects a physical object, is provided. The physical object is detected based on recognizing an object identifier. In addition, a number of external service providers is also provided. Each of these service providers offers one or more services with respect to the detected physical object. A service directory server registers the external service providers to generate a list of the available services for the detected physical object.

A service provisioning and activation method and system for telecommunications networks. The system operates in between a business support system (400) and a plurality of network element (480) and comprises a service repository (450) containing service configuration data. The system comprises also an order management component (410), which includes a generic logic (412) for service provisioning and activation operations, and an operation specific functionalities module (414) comprising operation specific functionalities capable of using data from the service repository (450). The order management component (410) receives requests from the business support system (400) and processes it according to the generic logic (412) calling the operation specific functionalities in the operation specific functionalities module (414). By means of this configuration, the system can perform a request-specific series of operations based on the received request and the data from the service repository, without the need of programming individual workflow for each different service activation, deactivation and modification situation possible in the telecommunications network.

A process to assist an IT professional to interact with a computer to establish an IT services catalog by performing the following steps: (1) providing some computer displayed means by which the IT professional can choose between multiple processes including defining a new service, defining a relationship between a service and another service or IT resource, defining cost information or defining a service action which, when executed, can create, modify or destroy an instance of the service; (2) when the user chooses to define a new service, interacting with the user in any way to create a data structure which defines the service and which includes validation constraints and / or validation formulas; (3) when the user chooses to define a relationship, interacting with the user in any way to determine whether the relationship is to other IT services or to IT resources and to establish filter conditions within the selected class and to record appropriate pointers and filter conditions in the data structure which defines the service; (4) if the user chooses to define cost information, interacting with the user in any way allow the user to enter and store cost formulas in the data structure defining a service; and (5) if the user chooses to define a service action, interacting in any way with the user to solicit and store data which completes a data structure which defines the service action.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device. The instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method comprising a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for providing a collection of cloud services in a data structure. An operation is performed for associating, within the data structure, each one of the cloud services with respective information that defines a constraint thereof. An operation is performed for applying the constraint of a particular one of the cloud services thereto in response to the particular one of the cloud services being incorporated into a cloud service architecture design.

Methods and apparatus for facilitating consumption of services via a services network are described. Access is provided to a services directory which identifies a plurality of services and at least one connector for facilitating consumption of each of the services via the network. Each connector is operable to mediate communication protocol and business policy differences between a first network end point associated with the corresponding service and a second network end point associated with a consumer of the service. For each of selected ones of the connectors, information accessible via the services directory is provided regarding how to use the connector to consume the corresponding service. For each of selected ones of the services, access to a connector design process is provided via the services directory. The connector design process is operable to facilitate creation of a new connector for the corresponding service, and to specify at least one business process for mediating the business policy differences.

A storage node uses storage descriptors for provisioning, monitoring and reporting. The storage descriptors indicate available storage resource capabilities and storage resource requirements for particular applications or types of applications using a common set of metrics. The storage node scales requirements to approximate a particular deployment scenario and then compares available capabilities and requirements as indicated by the storage descriptors.

A service cost model for services offered in a cloud-computing environment is generated by discovering cost-related attributes in a service catalog of provisioned virtual machines and applications provisioned thereon. The set of cost-related attributes includes at least one of the following: outage frequency, time to repair, cost of repair information, and time claimed by each resource type to fix past outages. The generated service cost model is tracked and adjusted against actuals periodically to reflect the true cost of offered services. Further by federating with other cloud service providers, the costs of a same service are compared between the different providers, and accordingly a recommendation for a provider based on the costs is proposed.

A unique process-oriented task database contains a hierarchal organization of work tasks. A service provider selects one or more tasks from the database to populate a record corresponding to the service provider; and the record is recorded in a service provider database. A consumer selects tasks from the task database to query the service provider database. The consumer then searches the service provider database with a search engine using tasks selected from the task database. The search engine returns a list of one or more service providers satisfying the search criteria, including the process-oriented task or tasks that the service provider selected from the task database.

A system and method are disclosed for creating, controlling and enhancing a life-cycle of at least one stage for a rich-content repository, such as a catalog of products and services. The item data is received from a source and is processed in accordance with a User-defined life-cycle, finally being published / syndicated as rich-content. At User direction, the rich-content life-cycle can include one or more stages such as item data receipt from a supplier, transformation under control of User-defined functions, and publication / syndication of the transformed, i.e., rich-content data. Maintenance of rich-content repositories is likewise provided using a User-defined life-cycle having User-defined functions.

There is provided a method for a multimedia broadcast / multicast service (MBMS) announcement to provide a service announcement document in a broadcast multicast service center (BM-SC) of a MBMS system, including the steps of: generating a service announcement document; searching a service announcement area; setting a session for providing the service announcement document to the searched service area by setting a MBMS multicast bearer; transmitting a corresponding service announcement document to the service announcement area, wherein the service announcement document includes an announcement area directories according to service announcement areas, and the announcement area directory includes service directories according to services provided to corresponding service announcement areas as a lower directory.

A method of modeling a service-oriented business including identifying a business service to provide, creating its business specification which specifies business requirements for the provided service, the business specification of a service, and service management terms, storing the business specification for the provided service in a service catalog, creating and reviewing its business process model, the business process model providing a sequence of business tasks in the business process, analyzing each of the business tasks to determine which of the business tasks should be accomplished via required service, process modeling each of the business tasks that are not service tasks, storing a process model for each of the business tasks that are not service tasks in a operation model repository, creating a business specification for each required service and storing the business specification for each of the required services in a repository of business specifications of required services.

The invention discloses a WebGIS three-dimensional lunar system based on ActiveX. The WebGIS three-dimensional lunar system based on the ActiveX is characterized in that the system comprises a client-side browser, a webpage WEB server, a WebGIS server, a GIS server cluster and a data server, the client-side browser is used for data displaying, data acquiring and data cache, providing an interactive interface, drawing a three-dimensional model and inserting a three-dimensional scene into the browser by means of the ActiveX control technology, the webpage WEB server is used for responding to page requests sent by the client-side browser and feeding back a page response to the client of the browser, the WebGIS server is used for providing service catalogues and tile services for the client of the browser, the GIS server cluster is used for providing underlying GIS supporting services including universal services, storage and access of geographic space information, manufacturing and releasing of maps and load balancing, and the data server is used for storing geographic information data. According to the WebGIS three-dimensional lunar system based on the ActiveX and a realizing method of the WebGIS three-dimensional lunar system, the three-dimensional lunar scene is inserted into a webpage, namely lunar data are displayed in a three-dimensional mode with the B / S structure, and the three-dimensional lunar scene can be browsed directly by a user through the browser.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a service opening method and system, and a service opening server. The method includes: receiving a service request from a third-party application, where the service request carries type and parameter information of the requested service; querying, according to the type information of the service, a service directory to obtain an access address and authentication type information of the requested service; when it is determined that the invoking of the service needs an authorization of an end user, obtaining an authorization notification message of the end user according to the type information of the service and the parameter information of the service; and forwarding, the service request to a capability server, and forwarding, to the third-party application, a service response message returned by the capability server. The control of the end user on the authorized service is ensured to the greatest extent.

The present invention discloses cross-regional settlement transaction system. The system comprises a security certificate management module, a distributed software issuing module and a plurality of prepositive terminals which are arranged in a same network. The security certificate management module is used for the digital certificate management, the authority management and the service catalog listing management, the distributed software issuing module is used to issue the latest prepositive terminal programs and a business verification rule base, and the prepositive terminals are connected with different business systems, can be used as the request terminal of initiating the transaction requests and also can be used as the service terminals of calling the correlated business systems to provide services, forward the information to the corresponding service terminals and establish the direct transaction correlation according to the business types and the regions of the request transactions and the information in a catalog listing, and carry out the transaction settlement via the agreed transaction secret keys. According to the present invention, the one-card and whole-network consumption in the cross-regional settlement is realized, the cross-regional, safe and reliable two-place direct transaction is realized, and the transaction two parties at the two places send the settlement results to a cross-regional settlement center to realize the non-repudiation three-party confirmed settlement.