Patent ID: 9323517
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A system for updating services in a cloud computing environment, comprising: one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon; a platform component that is provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, and that supports self-service provisioning for enterprise applications; one or more services, wherein each service is instantiated from a service type defined by a service definition package installed in the platform component, and includes a configuration tool for updating that service a file system made available to runtimes of the services, wherein the file system includes one or more patches for each service, and one or more configuration files for use by the configuration tool of that service; and a service update logic that issues a request for updating a particular service, wherein the configuration tool installed in the particular service updates that service using the information associated therewith in the file system within a maintenance window.