Provisioning insight services in a data provider landscape

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10659385-B2
Application number	US-201615342416-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 3, 2016
Priority date	Nov 3, 2016
Publication date	May 19, 2020
Grant date	May 19, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for provisioning insight services in a data provider landscape. A method includes presenting an algorithm description of an algorithm provided by an algorithm provider that is to be executed in a landscape of a data provider. Selection of the algorithm is received from a data consumer. The selected algorithm is provided to an agent at the data provider. The agent is configured to provision resources in the landscape of the data provider, according to the algorithm description, to enable execution of the selected algorithm in the landscape of the data provider. The agent is configured to execute the selected algorithm in the landscape of the data provider, using data included in the landscape of the data provider, producing one or more outputs. The agent is configured to enable monitoring of the execution of the selected algorithm.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
receiving, from a data provider user and at a user interface of a search service provided by an algorithm marketplace, a request to browse algorithms to execute in an environment of the data provider using data provided by the data provider, wherein the algorithms are provided by algorithm providers that are separate entities than the data provider;
presenting, to the data provider user, in the user interface, in response to the request to browse algorithms, multiple algorithm descriptions of software algorithms, each software algorithm provided by an associated algorithm provider, wherein each algorithm description includes, for an associated algorithm, a description of resources required by the data provider to execute the associated algorithm in the environment of the data provider, and a description of data to be used by the associated algorithm;
receiving, at the user interface, selection of a first algorithm description, from among the multiple algorithm descriptions, from the data provider user; and
providing, in response to the selection of the first algorithm description, a first algorithm associated with the selected algorithm description to a software agent at the data provider, wherein the software agent is configured to:
provision first resources in the environment of the data provider, according to a first description of resources included in the first algorithm description, to enable execution of the first algorithm in the environment of the data provider;
execute the first algorithm in the environment of the data provider, using data included in the environment of the data provider and the first resources provisioned in the environment of the data provider, producing one or more outputs; and
provide the one or more outputs to the data provider.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first algorithm is configured to obtain data provided by another data provider that is different from the data provider.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data included in the environment of the data provider is private data maintained within the environment of the data provider.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising enabling monitoring of the execution of the selected algorithm, including enabling the algorithm provider to view performance information related to the execution of the selected algorithm while preventing the algorithm provider from viewing the private data.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first resources include one or more of computing nodes, memory, network resources, and virtual machines.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the software agent is further configured to identify resources currently installed in the environment of the data provider and provide information describing the installed resources; and
presenting the multiple algorithm descriptions comprises:
determining, based on the information describing the installed resources, whether the resources currently installed in the data provider landscape are sufficient for executing the first algorithm; and
presenting information that indicates whether the resources currently installed are sufficient to execute the first algorithm, including presenting information that indicates resource shortcomings when the resources currently installed are not sufficient.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more outputs comprise one or more insights determined based on the data included in the environment of the data provider.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data included in the environment of the data provider comprises data generated by a set of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

9. A system, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a data provider user and at a user interface of a search service provided by an algorithm marketplace, a request to browse algorithms to execute in an environment of the data provider using data provided by the data provider, wherein the algorithms are provided by algorithm providers that are separate entities than the data provider;
presenting, to the data provider user, in the user interface, in response to the request to browse algorithms, multiple algorithm descriptions of software algorithms, each software algorithm provided by an associated algorithm provider, wherein each algorithm description includes, for an associated algorithm, a description of resources required by the data provider to execute the associated algorithm in the environment of the data provider, and a description of data to be used by the associated algorithm;
receiving, at the user interface, selection of a first algorithm description, from among the multiple algorithm descriptions, from the data provider user; and
providing, in response to the selection of the first algorithm description, a first algorithm associated with the selected algorithm description to a software agent at the data provider, wherein the software agent is configured to:
provision first resources in the environment of the data provider, according to a first description of resources included in the first algorithm description, to enable execution of the first algorithm in the environment of the data provider;
execute the first algorithm in the environment of the data provider, using data included in the environment of the data provider and the first resources provisioned in the environment of the data provider, producing one or more outputs; and
provide the one or more outputs to the data provider.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the first algorithm is configured to obtain data provided by another data provider.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the data included in the environment of the data provider is private data maintained within the environment of the data provider.

12. One or more computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a data provider user and at a user interface of a search service provided by an algorithm marketplace, a request to browse algorithms to execute in an environment of the data provider using data provided by the data provider, wherein the algorithms are provided by algorithm providers that are separate entities than the data provider;
presenting, to the data provider user, in the user interface, in response to the request to browse algorithms, multiple algorithm descriptions of software algorithms, each software algorithm provided by an associated algorithm provider, wherein each algorithm description includes, for an associated algorithm, a description of resources required by the data provider to execute the associated algorithm in the environment of the data provider, and a description of data to be used by the associated algorithm;
receiving, at the user interface, selection of a first algorithm description, from among the multiple algorithm descriptions, from the data provider user; and
providing, in response to the selection of the first algorithm description, a first algorithm associated with the selected algorithm description to a software agent at the data provider, wherein the software agent is configured to:
provision first resources in the environment of the data provider, according to a first description of resources included in the first algorithm description, to enable execution of the first algorithm in the enviro

Assignees

• Sap Portals Israel Ltd

Inventors

• Kinarti Barak
• Nathan Eyal
• Blich Amir
• Fishler Ido
• Behrens Marcus

Classifications

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L47/70 Primary

  Admission control; Resource allocation · CPC title

• H04L41/0896

  Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities (flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76) · CPC title