US 8,914,516 B2Granted

Providing an integrated suite of cloud-based, hosted and internal applications

AssigneeFmr LLC

InventorsChristopher Warren, John P. Hake, Edward O'Brien

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Abstract

Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for providing an integrated suite of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications. A server receives from a client device a request to access a portal comprising a plurality of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications. The server determines an identity of the user, and one or more applications of the plurality of applications available for access by the user. The server establishes a link with one or more computing devices hosting the one or more available applications for providing functionality of the available applications. The server authenticates the user automatically for each of the available applications, and translates communications between the server and each of the applications based on a mapping configuration. The server integrates the established links into a user interface that provide access to each of the available applications, and provides the integrated user interface to the client device.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A computerized method for providing an integrated suite of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server computing device from a client computing device, a request to access a portal comprising a plurality of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications, the request to access including credentials associated with a user of the client computing device;
determining, at the server computing device and based on the credentials, an identity of the user, and one or more applications of the plurality of applications available for access by the user;
establishing, by the server computing device with one or more computing devices hosting the one or more available applications, a link for providing functionality of the available applications, wherein the establishing step includes authenticating the user automatically for each of the available applications;
receiving, by the server computing device, a communication from a first available application, the communication intended for a second available application and including changed data associated with the first available application;
determining, by the server computing device, an urgency type of the communication;
mapping, by the server computing device, the changed data to a data structure associated with the second available application based on a mapping configuration stored at the server computing device;
generating, by the server computing device, a request based on the urgency type and the second available application, the request including the data structure for updating a database associated with the second available application;
sending, by the server computing device, the request to the second available application based on the urgency type;
updating, by the server computing device, data in a database associated with the server computing device, the updating based on the changed data;
integrating, by the server computing device, the established links into a user interface that provide access to each of the available applications;
and
providing, by the server computing device, the integrated user interface to the client computing device.

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A system for providing an integrated suite of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications, the system comprising a server computing device configured to:

receive, from a client computing device, a request to access a portal comprising a plurality of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications, the request to access including credentials associated with a user of the client computing device;
determine, based on the credentials, an identity of the user, and one or more applications of the plurality of applications available to be accessed by the user;
establish, with one or more computing devices hosting the one or more available applications, a link for providing functionality of the available applications, wherein the establishing step includes authenticating the user automatically with each of the available applications;
receive a communication from a first available application, the communication intended for a second available application and including changed data associated with the first available application;
determine an urgency type of the communication;
map the changed data to a data structure associated with the second available application based on a mapping configuration stored at the server computing device;
generate a request based on the urgency type and the second available application, the request including the data structure for updating a database associated with the second available application;
send the request to the second available application based on the urgency type;
update data in a database associated with the server computing device, the update based on the changed data;
integrate the established links into a user interface that provides access to each of the available applications;
and
provide, to the client computing device, the integrated user interface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.