Patent ID: 9590849
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: a cloud manager of a telephony network platform system transmitting a first cloud manager command via a REST access application programming interface (API) to at least one remote server of a remote third-party Internet-based multi-tenant computing platform that is external to the cloud manager, initiating the first group controller at the at least one remote server; initiating the first group; the database storing a security key to identify the first group, responsive to initiation of the first group controller at the at least one remote server; the cloud manager transmitting a second cloud manager command to the at least one remote server via the REST access API, responsive to the cloud manager receiving a second user instruction to change the first group profile to a second group profile, amending the first group in accordance with the second user selection; wherein initiating the first group comprises: installing software of a group definition of the first group profile on at least one server of the computing platform, the software of the group definition including software for each host of the first group, wherein amending the first group in accordance with the second user selection comprises: amending software installed on the at least one server for each host of the first group, each of the at least one server being identified by a secret key that is supplied at boot time of the server, wherein the cloud manager receives the first user instruction and the second user instruction from an outside system that is an external system of a user of the remote computing platform, wherein the outside system is external to the remote computing platform and the cloud manager, wherein the cloud manager receives the first user instruction and the second user instruction via a user interface of the cloud manager.