US 11,973,758 B2
Self-serve appliances for cloud services platform
Boris V. Baryshnikov, Redmond, WA (US); Mark E. Russinovich, Hunts Point, WA (US); and Charles W. Lamanna, Bellevue, WA (US)
Assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/637,030.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/394,620, filed on Sep. 14, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2018/0075009 A1, Mar. 15, 2018
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); H04L 41/084 (2022.01); H04L 41/18 (2022.01); H04L 41/5041 (2022.01); H04L 43/04 (2022.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04L 67/1097 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/10 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); H04L 41/084 (2013.01); H04L 41/18 (2013.01); H04L 41/5045 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01); H04L 47/70 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by a cloud services platform, comprising:
receiving a template that has been published to an online marketplace by a vendor and that has been selected therefrom by a customer, the template specifying resources to be allocated to deploy an appliance;
deploying the appliance to a customer account associated with the customer within the cloud services platform in accordance with the template, the deploying including allocating the resources specified by the template as part of an appliance resource group within the customer account, the specified resources including an appliance management resource comprising an application programming interface (API) that is configured to expose control features of the appliance to the customer;
providing access to at least one of the allocated resources in the appliance resource group to the vendor via a vendor account associated with the vendor within the cloud services platform, the appliance resource group within the customer account being rendered visible in a namespace of the vendor account, thereby providing the vendor account full access to the allocated resources in the appliance resource group; and
rendering at least one of any of the allocated resources in the appliance resource group read-only to the customer responsive to the at least one of any of the allocated resources being designated, by the vendor via the vendor account, as read-only to the customer, wherein the customer retains an ability to delete, from the customer account, the allocated resources in the appliance resource group, including the allocated resources rendered as read-only to the customer.