Meta-container for model-based distributed applications

US7739690B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Igor Sedukhin · Issaquah, US
• Dan Eshner · Issaquah, US
• Stephen T. Swartz · Seattle, US
• Oliver Sharp · New York, US
• Uday Kumar Bhaskara · Redmond, US
• Nagalinga Durga Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya · Redmond, US
• Amol Sudhakar Kulkarni · Bothell, US
• Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa · Redmond, US
• Vladimir Pogrebinsky · Redmond, US
• Haoran Andy Wu · Sammamish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 26, 2007
• Grant date: Jun 15, 2010
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/541
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Abstracting communication with a plurality of containers. Each container encapsulates or hosts a module (e.g., a web service, a database, etc.) associated with a distributed application. A meta-container communicates with drivers that interface with each of the containers. The meta-container represents an abstraction and a virtualization of the containers in the hierarchy. Each container may also be a meta-container for other containers. The recursion and layered hierarchy provide flexible, extensible, and efficient management of the distributed application.