Modifying a Middleware

Patent №

US 9,304,742

Granted

2016-04-05

Filed 2014

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14472556

A method for modifying a middleware shared by multiple tenants by preparing a data packet comprising modification information and tenant information, the modification information comprising information of a specific class to be modified in the middleware as well as modification content for the specific class, the tenant information indicating a specific tenant of the plurality of tenants to which the modification content is directed; and in response to acquisition of the data packet: modifying the specific class in the middleware in runtime according to the modification information to create a modified specific class; and applying the modified content only to the specific tenant. When multiple tenants share a same middleware, different versions of the middleware may be provided for respective tenants, without affecting the use by other tenants, thereby satisfying sharing and customization requirements of each of the multiple tenants.

AI classification

AI hardware0.97
Planning0.77
Knowledge representation0.12
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 336370275

Assignors

CAI, JUNJIE, LI, SAN HONG, LV, JING, LEI, CHEN, GAO, WEI WEI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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