Patents by Inventor Philip Oliver Metting van Rijn

Philip Oliver Metting van Rijn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and systems for automating deployment of applications in a database environment
    Patent number: 9075677
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided mechanisms and methods for automating deployment of applications in a multi-tenant database environment. For example, in one embodiment, mechanisms include managing a plurality of machines operating as a machine farm within a datacenter by executing an agent provisioning script at a control hub, instructing the plurality of machines to download and instantiate a lightweight agent; pushing a plurality of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) references from the control hub to the instantiated lightweight agent on each of the plurality of machines specifying one or more applications to be provisioned and one or more dependencies for each of the applications; and loading, via the lightweight agent at each of the plurality of machines, the one or more applications and the one or more dependencies for each of the one or more applications into memory of each respective machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Pallav Kothari, Philip Oliver Metting van Rijn
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATING DEPLOYMENT OF APPLICATIONS IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20110289509
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided mechanisms and methods for automating deployment of applications in a multi-tenant database environment. For example, in one embodiment, mechanisms include managing a plurality of machines operating as a machine farm within a datacenter by executing an agent provisioning script at a control hub, instructing the plurality of machines to download and instantiate a lightweight agent; pushing a plurality of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) references from the control hub to the instantiated lightweight agent on each of the plurality of machines specifying one or more applications to be provisioned and one or more dependencies for each of the applications; and loading, via the lightweight agent at each of the plurality of machines, the one or more applications and the one or more dependencies for each of the one or more applications into memory of each respective machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: salesforce.com
    Inventors: Pallav Kothari, Philip Oliver Metting van Rijn