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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2008
Robert W. Scheifler, Somerville, MA (US);
John W. Mcclain, Lexington, MA (US);
Peter C. Jones, Lexington, MA (US);
Thomas V. Johnson, Lexington, MA (US);
Robert W. Scheifler, Somerville, MA (US);
John W. McClain, Lexington, MA (US);
Peter C. Jones, Lexington, MA (US);
Thomas V. Johnson, Lexington, MA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing a development and deployment platform for Software as a Service (SaaS) providers are disclosed. The platform may provide an application programming interface (API) through which customers may configure virtualized grids of language-level virtual machines (VMs), networks, and storage resources. A grid may be horizontally scalable and programmatically configurable by a customer and/or customer code. The platform may allow dynamic scaling of resources (up and down) to match changing demands, by allowing customers and/or customer code to programmatically alter their own system level structure at runtime, through the API. The grid may be accessed by both on-grid and off-grid processes, through internal and external connectivity resources provided by the platform. The platform may provide common utilities for end-user services, deployment operations, and development tasks (e.g., debugging), and may include frameworks and macro-components (e.g. web servers). The platform may host long-running Internet-based services and/or one-shot computational services.