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US 7,689,593 B2Granted
Systems and methods for accessing a shared space in a provider-tenant environment
AssigneeSap SE
InventorWolfgang A. Becker
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Abstract
The present invention discloses methods and systems for hosting tenants in a computer-based environment in which a provider stores a shared data structure. Each of the tenants may store shared-metadata referencing the shared data structure, while a first tenant may store a tenant-specific data structure specific to the first tenant for access by the first tenant. Based on the shared-metadata and in response to a data request from the first tenant, the system may the query the provider or the first tenant for requested data and provide the requested data based on the querying.
Claims16
A computer-implemented method for hosting, at a provider, a plurality of tenants over a network, the method comprising:
- analyzing, at the provider, attributes of a plurality of data structures;
- based on the analysis, determining which of the plurality of data structures is a tenant-specific data structure specific to a first tenant of the plurality of tenants, and determining which of the plurality of data structures is a shared data structure shared by the plurality of tenants;
- generating a tenant-specific designation to identify a data structure of the plurality of data structures as being specific to the first tenant, and generating a shared designation to identify a data structure of the plurality of data structures as being shared by the plurality of tenants;
- appending the tenant-specific designation to the tenant-specific data structure, and appending the shared designation to the shared data structure;
- storing, at the provider, the shared data structure;
- generating shared-metadata based on the shared data structure stored at the provider;
- storing, at the first tenant, the tenant-specific data structure specific to the first tenant for access by the first tenant;
- querying, based on the shared-metadata and in response to a data request from the first tenant, at least one of a provider server and a tenant server of the first tenant for the requested data;
- storing, at the first tenant, the shared-metadata defining an attribute of at least one of the shared data structure and the tenant-specific data structure;
- querying the provider or the first tenant dependent on whether the attribute indicates the requested data structure is a shared data structure or a tenant-specific data structure;
- and
- providing the requested data based on the querying.
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A system, comprising at least a processor and a database, wherein the system comprises:
- means for analyzing, at the provider, attributes of a plurality of data structures;
- means for determining, based on the analysis, which of the plurality of data structures is a tenant-specific data structure specific to a first tenant of the plurality of tenants, and determining which of the plurality of data structures is a shared data structure shared by the plurality of tenants;
- means for generating a tenant-specific designation to identify a data structure of the plurality of data structures as being specific to the first tenant, and generating a shared designation to identify a data structure of the plurality of data structures as being shared by the plurality of tenants;
- means for appending the tenant-specific designation to the tenant-specific data structure, and appending the shared designation to the shared data structure;
- means for storing, at the provider, the shared data structure;
- means for generating shared-metadata based on the shared data structure stored at the provider;
- means for storing, at the first tenant, the tenant-specific data structure specific to the first tenant for access by the first tenant;
- means for storing, in a respective tenant server at each of the plurality of tenants, the shared-metadata referencing the shared data structure;
- means for querying, based on the shared-metadata and in response to a data request from the first tenant, at least one of a provider server and the respective tenant server of the first tenant for the requested data;
- means for storing, at the first tenant, the shared-metadata defining an attribute of at least one of the shared data structure and the tenant-specific data structure;
- means for querying the provider if the attribute indicates the requested data structure is a shared data structure;
- means for querying the first tenant if the attribute indicates the requested data is a tenant-specific data structure;
- and
- means for providing the requested data based on the querying.
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A computer-implemented method for hosting, at a provider, a plurality of tenants over a network, comprising:
- analyzing, at the provider, attributes of a plurality of data structures;
- based on the analysis, determining which of the plurality of data structures is a tenant-specific data structure specific to a first tenant of the plurality of tenants, and determining which of the plurality of data structures is a shared data structure shared by the plurality of tenants;
- generating a tenant-specific designation to identify a data structure of the plurality of data structures as being specific to the first tenant, and generating a shared designation to identify a data structure of the plurality of data structures as being shared by the plurality of tenants;
- appending the tenant-specific designation to the tenant-specific data structure, and appending the shared designation to the shared data structure;
- storing, at the provider, the shared data structure;
- generating shared-metadata based on the shared data structure stored at the provider;
- storing, in a respective tenant server at each of the plurality of tenants, the shared-metadata referencing the shared data structure;
- querying, in response to a data request from one of the plurality of tenants, a provider server for the stored shared data structure based on the shared-metadata;
- storing, at the first tenant, the shared-metadata defining an attribute of at least one of the shared data structure and the tenant-specific data structure;
- querying the provider if the attribute indicates the requested data structure is a shared data structure;
- querying the first tenant if the attribute indicates the requested data is a tenant-specific data structure;
- and
- providing the requested data based on the querying.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.