International Business Machines Corporation

Fovea2 LLC

Red Hat, Inc.

Issac Jacob Roth

Theobolt N Leung

Zhaohui Feng

Ritchie Tyler Martori

Miroslav Bajtos

Albert K Tsang

William Jessup Taylor

Tobias Kunze

A data structure representing the state of courier assignments is described. For each courier assignment, the data structure contains: information identifying a destination location for the courier assignment; information identifying a drop-off protocol specified for the courier assignment, the drop-off protocol specifying a sequence of steps; and, for each of at least some of the steps of the identified drop-off protocol, a representation of compliance evidence collected with respect to the step of the courier assignment. The contents of the data structure are usable to present collected compliance evidence for steps of the drop-off protocol specified for courier assignments among the plurality of courier assignments, either contemporaneously or at later times.

Discharging courier service assignments

A method. A JavaScript (JS) object is instantiated. The instantiated JS object processes application programming interface (API) requests received from mobile devices. The instantiation of the JS object is based on a JS model including (1) a JS file that stores a description of a behavior of the JS object and (2) a JS object notation (JSON) file that stores a description of properties of the JS object. The JSON file includes at least one validation rule to reject a data tuple unless the data tuple meets a required constraint specified in the validation rule. A data abstracter is an interface between the JS object and a set of data storages from which the JS object retrieves data while processing at least two of the API requests. The data abstractor is connected with the set of data storages by implementing a data exchange logic for the set of data storages.

Instantiation of JavaScript object

Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel server for processing application programming interface (API) requests. In some embodiments, the API server is written in JavaScript. For example, in some embodiments, the API-accessible objects of this server are each defined in terms of a JavaScript file and a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file. At runtime, a runtime processor instantiates each JavaScript object from its associated JavaScript and JSON files. Once instantiated, the JavaScript object can be used to process API requests that refer to the JavaScript object. Some embodiments use novel JSON file structures that allow these embodiments to define rich JavaScript models.

API server

A facility for executing an application program in a cloud computing environment is described. The facility identifies dependencies of the application program, and identifies support software components that satisfy the identified dependencies. The facility then causes the application to be executed in conjunction with the identified support software components on the nodes of the cloud computing environment on which they were installed.

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