Oracle International Corporation

Ramesh Vasudevan

Gopalan Arun

Ramkrishna Chatterjee

Anjani Kalyan Prathipati

Pradeep Seetharam

Sanjay Agarwal

Mahesh Baburao Girkar

Eric S Chan

Jayanta Banerjee

Percy Dara Mehta

Marco Carrer

Ilya Teplov

David Mor

Ajay Kumar Singh

Neil D Evans

Vladimir Begun

Amit C Dhuleshia

Benjamin Speckhard

Jay Ayres

Aspects of the present invention relate to techniques for providing a user with access to a service provided by a cloud infrastructure system based on an existing service. A user may be provided with a clone subscription based on a base subscription to an existing service provided by the cloud infrastructure system. A clone subscription can provide the user with an environment (e.g., a service) that is designated for one use (e.g., development and testing) different from another use (e.g., production) designed for a base subscription. Changes made to a base subscription may be propagated to the clone subscription based on rules. A clone subscription can be modified to vary the clone configuration independently from the base configuration.

Rule based subscription cloning

A method for controlling the provisioning of a service associated with a customer order is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving, by a cloud infrastructure system, an order for a service from a plurality of service provided by the cloud infrastructure system, the cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices. Additionally, the method may comprise determining, by a computing device from the one or more computing devices, based upon a set of rules and system-related information, whether the order is to be forwarded for provisioning one or more resources for enabling the order. Then, based upon the determining, the method may forward the order for provisioning of the one or more resources or not forwarding the order for provisioning.

Customizable model for throttling and prioritizing orders in a cloud environment

A method for offering a set of services is disclosed. The method may comprise storing, by a cloud infrastructure system, subscription order information identifying a service from a set of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, the cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices. A computing device from the one or more computing devices may determine a service declaration for the service, the service declaration comprising information indicative of procedures for provisioning resources for enabling the service. A computing device from the one or more computing devices may cause the service to be provisioned based on the service declaration.

Declarative and extensible model for provisioning of cloud based services

A synchronization infrastructure that synchronizes data stored between components in a cloud infrastructure system is described. A first component in the cloud infrastructure system may store subscription information related to a subscription order which may in turn be utilized by a second component in the cloud infrastructure system to orchestrate the provisioning of services and resources for the order placed by the customer. The synchronization architecture utilizes transactionally consistent checkpoints that describe the state of the data stored in the components to synchronize the data between these components.

Data synchronization in a cloud infrastructure

A framework for managing service components associated with a service subscribed to by a customer in a cloud infrastructure system is disclosed. The framework generates a subscription order for the customer based upon receiving a selection of service components from the customer. The framework identifies resource metrics associated with the service components selected by the customer and generates a subscription order for the customer based upon the service components and the resource metrics.

Subscription order generation for cloud services

A framework for handling a secure interaction between components in a cloud infrastructure system that wish to transfer information between each other during processing of a customer's subscription order is described. The framework orders the security zones of components based on security levels and protects the transfer of information between components in security zones with different security levels. The assignment of a component to a security zone is based upon the sensitivity of the data handled by the components, the sensitivity of functions performed by the component, and the like.

Security infrastructure for cloud services

Provisioning, managing and tracking of services provided by a cloud infrastructure system are described. A subscription request from a customer for one or more services provided by the cloud infrastructure system is received. Resources for the requested services are then provisioned. Resource usage information for the resources is collected and an overuse of the resources provisioned to the services in the subscription request, by a customer is determined. The overage information is provided to the customer.

Overage framework for cloud services

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with an artifact type neutral container are described. This artifact type neutral container is achieved through an artifact type neutral architecture that is managed using a central type neutral registration mechanism. Queries are executed on type neutral registration tables to return data stores that store the artifacts found within a given artifact type neutral container. The data stores are queried to return the artifacts in the artifact type neutral container. The artifact type neutral container can be used in systems in which the artifact type neutral container and artifact data are stored in the same database as well as in systems in which the artifact type neutral container and artifact data are stored in different databases.

Type neutral container

A computer that is programmed with collaboration software receives a change to be made to an object that can be of any type among several predetermined types such as message, document, contact, discussion and meeting. The object is represented as an aggregate of identifiable parts shareable by users, including at least a content part, a lock part, and an access-control part. Each version of the object is represented by a set of identifiers of these parts. In response to receipt of information identifying the change, the computer automatically identifies a specific part to be changed from among multiple parts of the object. Thereafter, the computer automatically creates a new instance of the specific part which contains the change as per the received information. The computer automatically stores a new version of the object as a new set that includes a new identifier of the new instance of the specific part.

Representing an object as an aggregate of identifiable parts shareable by users of a collaboration system

A computer that is programmed with collaboration software receives a new value of an attribute (or property or characteristic) which is specific to a label (or tag or category) as applied to an object managed by the computer. The computer does not use the new value to overwrite a corresponding old value in existing metadata. Instead, the computer is programmed to hold the new value in an incremental label application for the object. The computer is further programmed to respond to a request for the object's label application, by retrieving the incremental label application, and a full application of said label to said object. The computer uses attribute values in the incremental label application to update corresponding attribute values in a copy of the full label application, in a time sequence based on the time of creation of incremental label applications, thereby to generate a current label application.

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