Managing resources through user-facing web services aggregated in portals

US8046440B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Gerd Breiter · Wildberg, DE
• Carsten Leue · Eppelheim, DE
• Frank Leymann · Aidlingen, DE
• Thomas Schaeck · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 2005
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2011
• Expiry date: Sep 11, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/5072
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to managing the administration of electronic resources accessible in an electronic network. Grid resources or services are enhanced with a presentation interface that provides an administration user-interface for configuring them. Resource-located logic configures the resource according to user inputs and actions imparted on user controls, which are sent from a respective resource to a portal server. On the portal server, a second user-interface software is implemented, able to aggregate the fragments or controls of different resources, to display such multiple controls to a user, to process user inputs imparted on those controls, and to send user control data entered via the user-interface fragments to a resource configuration interface of a respective one of the resources to perform the configuration of a respective resource via the respective resource configuration-interface.