Patent ID: 8356274
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing multi-tenant services comprising: receiving a request from a user; establishing tenancy information for the user, wherein the tenancy information is selected which corresponds to a tenant of the user from among multiple tenants; customizing the request according to the tenancy information established for the user; forwarding the request to an application that is not multi-tenant aware; receiving results of the request from the application; customizing the results according to the tenancy information established for the user and corresponding to the tenant of the user, wherein customizing the results according to the tenancy information established for the user comprises generating a tenant specific metadata wrapper comprising a tenant specific data filter, applying the tenant specific metadata wrapper to the multi-user application, and filtering results of the multi-user application according to the tenant specific data filter; and returning customized results to the user.