Stack fusion software communication service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9654518-B2
Application number	US-201414561448-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2014
Priority date	Dec 5, 2014
Publication date	May 16, 2017
Grant date	May 16, 2017

Abstract

A stack fusion method is implemented at an originator cluster of software services in a distributed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system. The method includes receiving a request for a communication service from an originator registered to the originator cluster. The method further includes, responsive to the request, creating a communication protocol object in the originator cluster, discovering a participant cluster on which the participant is registered, notifying the participant via the participant cluster that the communication protocol object exists, and updating an index protocol object in the participant cluster that tracks communication sessions in which the participant is engaged with a reference that points to the communication protocol object in the originator cluster.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
in a distributed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system including multiple clusters of software services, such that each said cluster includes one or more communication services, wherein each said cluster physically resides within a data center of an organization operating each said cluster such that user data remains within the boundaries of each organization operating each said cluster, and wherein each said cluster is uniquely associated with a given organization and is managed by a remote cloud provider such that participants registered to the given organization have access limited to the cluster uniquely associated with that given organization, at an originator cluster of the multiple clusters:
receiving a request for a communication service from an originator registered to the originator cluster that includes identities of the originator and a participant;
responsive to the request, creating a communication protocol object in the originator cluster that represents a communication session;
searching one or more domain-to-cluster maps of the SaaS system to discover a participant cluster of the multiple clusters on which the participant is registered, wherein each of the one or more domain-to-cluster maps map one or more domains to a specific cluster that serves users registered to the one or more domains;
constructing an address of the participant cluster and the one or more communication services on the originator cluster based a domain of the participant cluster found in the searching;
based on the address, constructing a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for notifying the participant via the participant cluster; and
sending the URI from the originator cluster to the participant cluster so as to notify the participant that the communication protocol object exists, wherein the sending causes an index protocol object in the participant cluster that tracks communication sessions in which the participant is engaged to be updated with a reference that points to the communication protocol object in the originator cluster.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, at the participant cluster:
receiving a query for the index protocol object from the participant; and
responsive to the query, returning the reference to the participant.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the receiving includes receiving an originator email addresses as the identity of the originator and a participant email address as the identity of the participant, the originator and participant email addresses each including a user identifier and an email domain, respectively; and
the discovering includes:
searching the one or more domain-to-cluster maps of the SaaS system for a domain that matches the domain of the participant email address.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the searching includes searching a globally accessible domain-to-cluster map that is accessible to each of the multiple clusters for a domain that matches the domain in the participant email address.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notifying includes performing an operation from the communication service in the originator cluster to the constructed address of the participant cluster and the communication service therein to request delivery of a notification to the participant.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the updating includes performing an operation from the communication service in the originator cluster to the index protocol object in the participant cluster of an event indicating the creation of the communication session.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the receiving includes receiving an originator email addresses as the identity of the originator and a participant email address as the identity of the participant, the originator and participant email addresses each including a user identifier and an email domain, respectively; and
the discovering includes:
searching one or more userhash-to-cluster maps of the SaaS system that each map users to clusters that serve users registered to those clusters for a hash that matches the hash of the participant email address; and
constructing an address of the participant cluster and the communication service therein based on the participant cluster found in the searching.

8. An apparatus comprising:
an originator platform, comprising a processor executing instructions stored in a memory to provide compute resources, network resources, and storage resources, in a distributed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system including multiple clusters of software services, such that each said cluster includes one or more communication services, wherein each said cluster physically resides within a data center of an organization operating each said cluster such that user data remains within the boundaries of each organization operating each said cluster, and wherein each said cluster is uniquely associated with a given organization and is managed by a remote cloud provider such that participants registered to the given organization have access limited to the cluster uniquely associated with the given organization, wherein the compute resources at an originator cluster include a processor configured to:
receive a request for a communication service from an originator registered to the originator cluster that includes identities of the originator and at least one a participant;
responsive to the request, create a communication protocol object in the originator cluster that represents a communication session;
search one or more domain-to-cluster maps of the SaaS system to discover a participant cluster of the multiple clusters on which the participant is registered, wherein each of the one or more domain-to-cluster maps map one or more domains to a specific cluster that serves users registered to the one or more domains;
construct an address of the participant cluster and the one or more communication services on the originator cluster based a domain of the participant cluster found in the searching;
based on the address, construct a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for notifying the participant via the participant cluster; and
send the URI from the originator cluster to the participant cluster so as to notify the participant that the communication protocol object exists, wherein the sending causes an index protocol object in the participant cluster that tracks communication sessions in which the participant is engaged to be updated with a reference that points to the communication protocol object in the originator cluster.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , further comprising:
a participant platform, comprising a processor executing instructions stored in a memory to provide compute resources, network resources, and storage resources, configured to host a participant cluster of software services, including communication services, in the distributed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system, the compute resources of the participant platform including a participant processor to:
receive a query for the index protocol object from the participant; and
responsive to the query, return the reference to the participant.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein:
the processor is configured to receive by receiving an originator email addresses as the identity of the originator and a participant email address as the identity of the participant, the originator and participant email addresses each including a user identifier and an email domain, respectively; and
the processor is configure to discover by:
searching the one or more domain-to-cluster maps of the SaaS system for a domain that matches the domain of the participant email address.

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Assignees

• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Rosenberg Jonathan
• Linskey Patrick
• Quelle Reinhardt

Classifications

• G06F9/5072 Primary

  Grid computing · CPC title

• H04L61/1511

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06Q10/107

  Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing] · CPC title

• G06F9/5061

  Partitioning or combining of resources · CPC title

• H04L29/06

  Electricity · mapped topic