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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2013
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Jean-Louis Baffier, Chanteloup-en-Brie, FR;
Marc Dangeard, Sausalito, CA (US);
Thierry Gruet, Montesson, FR;
Olaf Ziegler, Munich, DE;
Dean Tan, Redwood City, CA (US);
Christina Sechrest, Belmont, CA (US);
Pascal Sero, Foster City, CA (US);
Kevin Walsh, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for provisioning databases for users on a wide area network such as the Internet include a first party managing one or more database systems. Second parties subscribe to database services supported by the managed database systems. The first party provides, over a network, to database applications of the second parties, access to database services to which the second parties are subscribed. The database systems may use database appliances hosting both database process(es), and non-database process(es) tailored to the needs of the database process(es). A user is therefore able to obtain database resources from an Internet Database Service Provider (IDSP) without incurring the full costs of database administrator(s), dedicated database equipment facilit(ies), or even dedicated database device(s), depending on usage. Meanwhile, the IDSP incurs minimum staffing loads because of self-service tools. Costing model and automatic billing are also described.