US 8,046,440 B2Granted

Managing resources through user-facing web services aggregated in portals

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsGerd Breiter, Carsten Leue, Frank Leymann, Thomas Schaeck

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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.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method for configuring a plurality of electronic resources accessible in an electronic network, characterized by the steps of:

receiving a plurality of user-interface fragments at a portal server sent from said plurality of electronic resources, wherein each of said plurality of user-interface fragments comprises a description of a user interface for respective one of said plurality of electronic resources including markup code usable to administer said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources and includes
data for a visual representation of configuration data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, and
data for a visual representation of control data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, said visual representation of said control data for initiating changes to said configuration data, wherein said changes are to be executed at said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources itself;
providing a user interface to an end user by aggregating said plurality of user interface fragments within a portal page at said portal server and sending said portal page to a Web browser associated with said end user;
and
receiving at said portal server user control data entered by said end user through said Web browser via said plurality of user-interface fragments within said portal page, said user control data for configuring respective ones of said plurality of electronic resources.

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A portal server computer system including at least one processor and at least one computer readable storage medium having send/receive proxy program code stored thereon for, when executed, configuring a plurality of electronic resources accessible in an electronic network by performing the steps of:

receiving a plurality of user-interface fragments at said portal server sent from said plurality of electronic resources, wherein each of said plurality of user-interface fragments comprises a description of a user interface for a respective one of said plurality of electronic resources including markup code usable to administer said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources and includes
data for a visual representation of configuration data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, and
data for a visual representation of control data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, said visual representation of said control data for initiating changes to said configuration data, wherein said changes are to be executed at said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources itself;
providing a user interface to an end user by aggregating said plurality of user interface fragments within a portal page at said portal server and sending said portal page to a Web browser associated with said end user;
and
receiving at said portal server user control data entered by said end user through said Web browser via said plurality of user-interface fragments within said portal page, said user control data for configuring respective ones of said plurality of electronic resources.

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A computer program product including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having send/receive proxy program code stored thereon for, when executed, configuring a plurality of electronic resources accessible in an electronic network by performing the steps of:

receiving a plurality of user-interface fragments at said portal server sent from said plurality of electronic resources, wherein each of said plurality of user-interface fragments comprises a description of a user interface for a respective one of said plurality of electronic resources including markup code usable to administer said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources and includes
data for a visual representation of configuration data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, and
data for a visual representation of control data of said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources, said visual representation of said control data for initiating changes to said configuration data, wherein said changes are to be executed at said respective one of said plurality of electronic resources itself;
providing a user interface to an end user by aggregating said plurality of user interface fragments within a portal page at said portal server and sending said portal page to a Web browser associated with said end user;
and
receiving at said portal server user control data entered by said end user through said Web browser via said plurality of user-interface fragments within said portal page, said user control data for configuring respective ones of said plurality of electronic resources.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.