Mapping portal applications in multi-tenant environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019332979-A1
Application number	US-201916507682-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 10, 2019
Priority date	Aug 19, 2008
Publication date	Oct 31, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium being operable to associate each of a plurality of tenants with a respective virtual portal and individually meter virtual portal usage at each respective virtual portal. Additionally, the computer executable code is operable to determine a fee amount for the each of the plurality of tenants based on the individually metered virtual portal usage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable memory or device being operable to:
associate each of a plurality of tenants with a respective virtual portal based on one or more virtual portal properties of the respective virtual portal using a processor of the computer infrastructure; individually meter virtual portal usage of the respective virtual portal, by one or more clients of portal proprietary applications at each respective virtual portal; and determine a fee amount for each of the plurality of tenants based on the individually metered virtual portal usage.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the associating is a one-to-one mapping of each of the plurality of tenants with a single virtual portal of the plurality of virtual portals, such that each of a plurality of virtual portals is only associated with a particular tenant of the plurality of tenants.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more virtual portal properties further comprises at least one of:
a virtual portal identification; and a unique uniform resource locator (URL) prefix.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising establishing a new virtual portal for a new tenant.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the associating the each of the plurality of tenants with the respective virtual portal comprises:
configuring the respective virtual portal with an indication of an association with one of the plurality of tenants; and updating a routing mechanism to reflect the association.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the routing mechanism comprises one of a unique uniform resource locator (URL) and a redirect mechanism.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the computer executable code tangibly embodied on the computer readable medium is further operable to:
permit the one or more clients to request web portal usage; authenticate and authorize the one or more clients of a particular tenant; and connect the one or more clients to a virtual portal associated with the particular tenant.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the individually metering virtual portal usage by the one or more clients at each respective virtual portal further comprises metering a total session time of usage by the one or more clients of the respective virtual portal.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
uploading metering information of the one or more clients containing associations between the each of the plurality of tenants and the respective virtual portal; and storing virtual portal usage data in a database.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising registering the association of each of the plurality of tenants with the respective virtual portal.

11 . The method of claim 10 , further comprising generating an application access and log record which includes metering data for a virtual portal usage session at each respective virtual portal.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the determining the fee amount for each of the plurality of tenants based on the individually metered virtual portal usage further comprises:
determining a first fee amount for each of the plurality of tenants based on log records of the individually metered virtual portal usage by the one or more clients associated with each of the plurality of the tenants; and determining a second fee amount for each of the plurality of tenants based on aggregated user data for all of one or more client virtual portal usage at each of the plurality of tenants associated with each respective virtual portal, wherein each respective virtual portal is configured to comprise at least one web application, and the individually metering virtual portal usage by the one or more clients at each respective virtual portal comprises metering a number of transaction counts for each web search utilizing a specific search engine via the respective virtual portal, a number of log-ins on the respective virtual portal, and a number of concurrent users of the respective virtual portal.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Laventman Gennady
• Rendahl Randy A
• Roy-Chowdhury Amber
• Roytman Alexey

Classifications

• G06Q30/02

  Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising · CPC title

• G06Q40/12

  Accounting · CPC title

• G06Q30/0283

  Price estimation or determination · CPC title

• G06Q30/04

  Billing or invoicing · CPC title

• G06Q10/06 Primary

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title