Modular system including management and deployment of software updates and revisions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9262152-B1
Application number	US-201514603144-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jan 22, 2015
Priority date	Jan 22, 2015
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

A technology/operating system-agnostic and protocol-agnostic modular-based service delivery system that includes a management of enterprise-wide deployment of services and updates to services delivered by the modules of the system. Management includes determination and automatic implementation of an optimal schedule for service deployment, service version updates and service version roll-backs based on (i) predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to networked devices in the enterprise executing the service delivery application, and/or (ii) segments within the enterprise.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for managing deployment and update of services within an enterprise, the system comprising:
a distributed network of servers, wherein each server has an assigned lifecycle level;
a computing platform including network memory and a processor in communication with the memory; and
an operating system-agnostic, modular-based, service delivery application stored in the network memory, executable by the processor and including a plurality of modules, each module configured to deliver a service to the enterprise, wherein the modules include:
a provisioning module configured to provide management over deployment of the services delivered by the modules and version updates to the services delivered by the modules, including:
determine and automatically implement an optimal schedule for service deployment and service version updates based on predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to networked devices in the enterprise executing the service delivery application,
deny execution of non-permitted service versions by requiring networked devices in the enterprise that execute the service delivery application to verify a version being launched prior to executing the version, and
schedule deactivation of a declining service version and alert service delivery application users of the scheduled deactivation of the declining service version and a need to download an emerging version.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning module is further configured to determine and automatically implement the optimal schedule for service deployment and service version updates, wherein the optimal schedule comprises staging service deployment and service version updates over a predetermined period of time based on the predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to the networked devices.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning module is further configured to determine and automatically implement the optimal schedule for service deployment and service version updates based on predetermined lifecycle level, wherein the predetermined lifecycle levels include (1) development, (2) System Integration Testing (SIT), (3) User Acceptance Testing (UAT), (4) pre-production and (5) production.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning module is further configured to automatically implement service version rollbacks.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the provisioning module is further configured to determine and automatically implement an optimal schedule for the service version rollbacks based on the predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to networked devices in the enterprise that execute the service delivery application.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning module is further configured to provide management over deployment of the services delivered by the modules and version updates to the services delivered by the modules, including implement side-loading of version updates to allow a user to simultaneously execute a current version while the version update is occurring.

7. An apparatus for managing deployment and update of services within an enterprise, the apparatus comprising:
a computing platform having a memory and at least one processor in communication with the memory; and
an operating system-agnostic, modular-based, service delivery application stored in the memory, executable by the processor and including:
a plurality of modules, each module configured to deliver a service to the enterprise, wherein the modules include,
a provisioning module configured to provide management over deployment of the services delivered by the modules and version updates to the services delivered by the modules, including:
determine and automatically implement an optimal schedule for service deployment and service version updates based on predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to networked devices in the enterprise executing the service delivery application,
deny execution of non-permitted service versions by requiring networked devices in the enterprise that execute the service delivery application to verify a version being launched prior to executing the version, and
schedule deactivation of a declining service version and alert service delivery application users of the scheduled deactivation of the declining service version and a need to download an emerging version.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the provisioning module is further configured to determine and automatically implement the optimal schedule for service deployment and service version updates, wherein the optimal schedule comprises staging service deployment and service version updates over a predetermined period of time based on the predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to the networked devices.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the provisioning module is further configured to determine and automatically implement an optimal schedule for service version rollbacks based on the predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to networked devices in the enterprise that execute the service delivery application.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the provisioning module configured to provide management over deployment of the services delivered by the modules and version updates to the services delivered by the modules, including implement side-loading of version updates to allow a user to simultaneously execute a current version while the version update is occurring.

11. A computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:
a first set of codes for causing a computer to a determine and automatically implement an optimal schedule for service deployment and service version updates based on predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to networked devices in the enterprise executing the service delivery application;
a second set of codes for causing a computer to determine and automatically implement an optimal schedule for service version rollbacks based on one or more of (i) predetermined lifecycle levels assigned to networked devices in the enterprise that execute the service delivery application, and (ii) segments within the enterprise;
a third set of codes for causing a computer to deny execution of non-permitted service versions by requiring networked devices in the enterprise that execute the service delivery application to verify a version being launched prior to executing the version; and
a fourth set of codes for causing a computer to schedule deactivation of a declining service version and alert service delivery application users of the scheduled deactivation of the declining service version and a need to download an emerging version.

Assignees

• Bank Of America

Inventors

• Kurian Manu Jacob
• Cismas Sorin N

Classifications

• H04L41/082

  the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality · CPC title

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title

• H04L67/10

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

• G06F8/65 Primary

  Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title