Patent Issued for High speed mainframe application tool (USPTO 11755388): Fidelity Information Services LLC

2023 OCT 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx journalists report that a patent by the inventor Ramanjani, Rajiv (Bangalore, IN), filed on June 10, 2022, was published online on September 12, 2023.

The patent’s assignee for patent number 11755388 is Fidelity Information Services LLC (Jacksonville, Florida, United States).

News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “A mainframe is a computer used by many large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing (such as the census and industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing. Generally, mainframe computers may be a large, centralized machine that contains a large amount of memory, a large amount of storage space, and multiple processors, so it has ultra-processing power comparing to standard computer systems.

“The importance of mainframe computers is increasing for large scale organization, scientific research, consumer statistics, and census data, because it is capable to execute multiple complex programs concurrently at high speed. Mainframe computers can be used in many different areas, such as health insurance processing, retail, e-commerce, and airline reservation systems.

“Organizations from different industries offer a variety of services and products. Many of these products offer different incentives or features. Mainframe computers analyze these products in a closed system with highly secure and high performance capabilities.

“For example, financial services provided by a financial institution, ticket reservation systems for railways and airlines, inventories for retail companies, etc., can use mainframe systems to execute massive transactions in short duration. Mainframe systems can also run in a batch mode overnight processing of scheduled programs.

“Mainframe systems would generally consist of more than hundreds or close to thousand instructions, also referred to as “job control languages” (JCLs), depending on the size of the application. Further, these JCLs have many input and output files which take a long period of time to analyze an entire application on mainframe.

“Difficulties associated with analyzing one application on a mainframe can cause high analysis time and may require more support for complex applications. These and other technological problems have complicated advances to analyze an application on mainframe. Moreover, existing mainframe systems analyzing simple applications can take at least more than a week.

“Therefore, a need exists for high-speed analysis of applications on mainframes. The present disclosure is directed to addressing these and other challenges.”

As a supplement to the background information on this patent, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent: “One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented system. The system comprises a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations include obtaining, from at least one data store, at least one user data record from a server, constructing an instruction template, the instruction template comprises a plurality of main streams, the instruction template adding the at least one user data record as a plurality of user parameters corresponding to the main streams, transmitting the at least one user data record to a file transfer connection, inputting the instruction template and a first command into the file transfer connection, the file transfer connection being configured to execute the first command, inputting the file transfer connection and a second command into the script file, the script file being configured to execute the second command, transmitting the main streams into a pre-defined driver program, opening each of the main streams through the pre-defined driver program by using pre-defined variable records to retrieve a plurality of in-streams of each of the main streams, aggregating the main streams and the in-streams associated with the user parameters resulting a final output, transmitting the final output to the server; and receiving a visualization from the server, created by processing the final output.

“Other aspects of the present disclosure are directed to computer-implemented methods for performing the functions of the computer-implemented systems discussed above.

“Other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also discussed herein.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A computer-implemented system comprising: a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising: obtaining, from at least one data store, at least one user data record from a server; transmitting the at least one user data record to a file transfer connection; inputting an instruction template and a first command into the file transfer connection, the file transfer connection being configured to execute the first command; inputting the file transfer connection and a second command into a script file, the script file being configured to execute the second command; transmitting a plurality of main streams into a pre-defined driver program, wherein the plurality of main streams is a series of job control languages (JCLs) that corresponds to the at least one user data record; aggregating the plurality of main streams and a plurality of in-streams associated with a plurality of user parameters resulting in a final output, wherein the plurality of in-streams is a series of procedures used in each of the JCLs; and transmitting the final output to the server, wherein the server is configured to create a visualization by processing the final output.

“2. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the operation of the transmitting the plurality of main streams into the pre-defined driver program further comprises: opening each of the plurality of main streams through the pre-defined driver program by using pre-defined variable records to retrieve the plurality of in-streams of each of the main streams; implementing an entry system and a management system as part of the server; transmitting the plurality of main streams to the entry system, the entry system being configured to execute the plurality of main streams; obtaining, by the management system, the plurality of main streams corresponding to the at least one user data record requested from the server; and returning the plurality of main streams of the requested at least one user data record to the pre-defined driver program.

“3. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein each of the series of procedures comprises a series of programs used in each of the procedures and each of the series of programs comprises a series of copybooks used in each of the programs.

“4. The computer-implemented system of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise: opening each of the series of procedures through the pre-defined driver program by using pre-defined variable records to retrieve the series of programs of each of the series of procedures; and opening each of the series of programs through the pre-defined driver program by using the pre-defined variable records to retrieve the series of copybooks of each of the series of programs.

“5. The computer-implemented system of claim 3, wherein the final output comprises at least one of the series of JCLs, the series of procedures, the series of programs, and the series of copybooks.

“6. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the operation of inputting the file transfer connection and the second command into the script file further comprises: pausing the script file for a period of time; and executing the second command by the script file.

“7. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise: connecting the file transfer connection to the server based on the file transfer connection being configured to execute the first command; and connecting the script file to the server based on the script file being configured to execute the second command.

“8. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the at least one user data record comprises at least one user identification and at least one user password.

“9. The computer-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise: displaying the visualization on a graphical user interface.

“10. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining, from at least one data store, at least one user data record from a server; transmitting the at least one user data record to a file transfer connection; inputting an instruction template and a first command into the file transfer connection, the file transfer connection being configured to execute the first command; inputting the file transfer connection and a second command into a script file, the script file being configured to execute the second command; transmitting a plurality of main streams into a pre-defined driver program, wherein the plurality of main streams is a series of job control languages (JCLs) that corresponds to the at least one user data record; aggregating the plurality of main streams and a plurality of in-streams associated with a plurality of user parameters resulting in a final output, wherein the plurality of in-streams is a series of procedures used in each of the JCLs; and transmitting the final output to the server, wherein the server is configured to create a visualization by processing the final output.

“11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the operation of the transmitting the plurality of main streams into the pre-defined driver program further comprises: opening each of the plurality of main streams through the pre-defined driver program by using pre-defined variable records to retrieve the plurality of in-streams of each of the main streams; implementing an entry system and a management system as part of the server; transmitting the plurality of main streams to the entry system, the entry system being configured to execute the plurality of main streams; obtaining, by the management system, the plurality of main streams corresponding to the at least one user data record requested from the server; and returning the plurality of main streams of the requested at least one user data record to the pre-defined driver program.

“12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein each of the series of procedures comprises a series of programs used in each of the procedures, and each of the series of programs comprises a series of copybooks used in each of the programs.

“13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the method further comprises: opening each of the series of procedures through the pre-defined driver program by using pre-defined variable records to retrieve the series of programs of each of the series of procedures; and opening each of the series of programs through the pre-defined driver program by using the pre-defined variable records to retrieve the series of copybooks of each of the series of programs.

“14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the final output comprises at least one of the series of JCLs, the series of procedures, the series of programs, and the series of copybooks.

“15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the operation of inputting the file transfer connection and the second command into the script file further comprises: pausing the script file for a period of time; and executing the second command by the script file.

“16. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises: connecting the file transfer connection to the server based on the file transfer connection being configured to execute the first command; and connecting the script file to the server based on the script file being configured to execute the second command.

“17. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the at least one user data record comprises at least one user identification and at least one user password.

“18. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises: displaying the visualization on a graphical user interface.”

For additional information on this patent, see: Ramanjani, Rajiv. High speed mainframe application tool. U.S. Patent Number 11755388, filed June 10, 2022, and published online on September 12, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(11755388)&db=USPAT&type=ids

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