US 11,456,921 B2Granted

Self-contained microservice platform

AssigneeNCR Corporation

InventorsWilliam Michael Prendergast, Michael Schechter, Khaled Janania, II

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Abstract

A configuration interface is provided. Hardware settings are obtained for a target server's networked environment through the configuration interface. Microservices are selected with configuration settings through the configuration interface. An installation package is created having an Operating System (OS), the selected microservices, the hardware settings, and the configuration settings. The installation package is uploaded to a blade server. Upon detection by the blade server of the presence of the target server's networked environment, a bootstrap operation is processed and the OS with the selected microservices are loaded and initiated on the blade server. The microservices are provided over the target server's network as a self-contained microservice platform from the blade server. The microservices interact with transaction devices over the network and user-operated devices through a portal interface provided with the installation package.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

detecting a device connection to a target server, wherein the device is a blade device that was inserted into a blade port of the target server;
processing a bootstrap operation on the device to obtain an Internet Protocol (IP) address for the device and a Domain Name System (DNS) used by the target server based on parameterized configuration settings that are dynamically populated with the IP address and a DNS name that the device is accessible over within the DNS of the target server;
loading and initiating an operating system on the device;
initiating, by the operating system, a self-contained microservice platform having a plurality of microservices from an installation package on the device;
providing the microservices over a network from the device utilizing the IP address and the DNS;
performing operations within the self-contained microservice platform over the network through the microservices for transactions being processed at transaction terminals and reported from the transaction terminals to the IP address, wherein performing further include performing other operations within the self-contained microservice platform over the network through the microservices that include processing directed to:
messages, notifications, reports, data management, product inventories, product catalogs, customer loyalty, promotions, device-based events, and transaction-based events;
and
encapsulating the operations of the self-contained microservice platform on the blade device.

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A server, comprising:

a processor;
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions representing a self-contained microservice platform installer;
and
the self-contained microservice platform installer that when executed by the processor from the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium cause the processor to:
perform a boot strap operation upon detection of the server being connected to a network to obtain an Internet Protocol (IP) address for the server and a Domain Name System (DNS) used on the network based on parameterized configuration settings that are dynamically populated with the IP address and a DNS name that the server is accessible over within the DNS of the network, wherein the server is a blade device that is inserted into a blade server to force the boot strap operation of the blade device with the blade server;
load and initiate from an installation package an operating system on the server;
load and initiate device drivers for types of device that communicate with the server over the network based on the installation package;
load and initiate microservices within the operating system based on the installation package;
load and initiate a portal interface for access to the microservices over the network at the IP address;
provide the microservices to transaction devices and user-operated devices through the device drivers and the portal interface as a self-contained microservice platform for the network;
perform operations within the self-contained microservice platform over the network through the microservices for transactions being processed at transaction terminals and reported from the transaction terminals to the IP address, wherein performing further include performing other operations within the self-contained microservice platform over the network through the microservices that include processing directed to:
messages, notifications, reports, data management, product inventories, product catalogs, customer loyalty, promotions, device-based events, and transaction-based events;
and
encapsulating the operations of the self-contained microservice platform on the blade device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/397,525Filed 29 Apr 2019
Published: US 2020/0344123 A129 Oct 2020
Granted: 27 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04L 41/0889
Configuration management of networks or network elements: techniques to speed-up the configuration process
G06F 8/61
Software deployment: installation
G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
H04L 41/5054
Characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service: automatic deployment of services triggered by the service…