Application infrastructure platform (AIP)
View Patent ↗Disclosed is an application infrastructure platform (AIP) having an application service provider (ASP) environment including multiple ASP systems providing application services to customers, and a common services environment including hardware and software and management systems providing to the ASP systems applications and integrated application, back-office, and management services used by the ASP systems in delivering their application services to their customers. In another aspect, the AIP is associated with a development and test bed environment which conducts product and service development and testing.
1. A system for automatically providing application services, the system comprising:
a plurality of application service provider systems providing application services to customer entities for use in end user devices; and
a common services environment including hardware and software configured to allow said end user devices to access and utilize said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems, and said common services environment further including management systems to provide integrated application, back-office, and management services to said application service provider systems for use in managing and supporting access by said end user devices to said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems;
wherein said common services environment is supported with common environment storage of application service provider and common environment data including product catalogs for presentation and management of application service provider products;
wherein said product catalogs include applications provided to said application service providers from said common services environment and additional applications from said common services environment for offering to new application service providers.
2. A system for automatically providing application services, the system comprising:
a plurality of application service provider systems providing application services to customer entities for use in end user devices; and
a common services environment including hardware and software configured to allow said end user devices to access and utilize said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems, and said common services environment further including management systems to provide integrated application, back-office, and management services to said application service provider systems for use in managing and supporting access by said end user devices to said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems;
an access system linking said application service providers and customer entities via multiple networks, said access system including a security management system
wherein said access system includes transcoder and portal systems delivering content based on the requirements of different types of network and end user devices.
3. A system for automatically providing application services, the system comprising:
a plurality of application service provider systems providing application services to customer entities for use in end user devices; and
a common services environment including hardware and software configured to allow said end user devices to access and utilize said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems, and said common services environment further including management systems to provide integrated application, back-office, and management services to said application service provider systems for use in managing and supporting access by said end user devices to said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems;
an access system linking said application service providers and customer entities via multiple networks, said access system including a security management system;
wherein said access system includes transcoder and portal systems delivering content based on the requirements of different types of network and end user devices;
wherein said transcoder provides the presentation to said devices based on a device profile and an Extensible Markup Language (XML) input data stream.
4. A system for automatically providing application services, the system comprising:
a plurality of application service provider systems providing application services to customer entities for use in end user devices; and
a common services environment including hardware and software configured to allow said end user devices to access and utilize said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems, and said common services environment further including management systems to provide integrated application, back-office, and management services to said application service provider systems for use in managing and supporting access by said end user devices to said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems;
an access system linking said application service providers and customer entities via multiple networks, said access system including a security management system;
wherein said access system includes transcoder and portal systems delivering content based on the requirements of different types of network and end user devices;
wherein said transcoder converts content between markup languages and adapts content to match end user device configurations.
5. A method of automatically providing application infrastructure services, comprising:
providing an application infrastructure platform including an application service provider environment including multiple application service provider hardware and software systems for providing application services to customer entities for use in end user devices;
providing a common services environment including hardware and software for interacting with said application service provider hardware and software systems to allow said end user devices to access and utilize said application services of said plurality of application service provider systems,
wherein independent operators operating said application service provider systems in said application service provider environment; and
operating said common services environment to interact with and support said operation of said application service provider systems in said application service provider environment by said independent operators and supplying applications and integrated operating and management services used by said application service providers in delivering said application services to said customer entities for use in said devices,
wherein said common services environment is supported with common services environment storage of application service provider data and common services environment data;
wherein said common environment data includes product catalogs for presentation and management of application service provider products;
wherein said product catalogs include applications provided to said application service providers from said common services environment and additional applications from said common services environment for offering to new application service providers.