Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the application provides a method and a system for providing public network access for the outside through an intranet kubernets, so that the problem of low efficiency caused by manual configuration which is necessary for providing public network access for services deployed in an intranet kubernets cluster in the related technology is at least solved.
In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for providing public network access to the outside through an intranet kubernets, where the method includes:
the method comprises the steps that an intranet penetration mechanism detects Service created by user Service application in real time through IP providing Service, and the IP providing Service sends a request instruction to a container management platform under the condition that the IP providing Service detects that the Service needs to provide Service to the outside;
the intranet penetration mechanism receives the request instruction through a container management service deployed on the container management platform, the container management service applies load balance to a public cloud server, the container management service creates a container of an intranet penetration service end, and the container management service sends a public network IP and a port to the IP providing service;
the intranet penetration mechanism receives the public network IP and the port through the IP providing service, and the IP providing service creates a container of an intranet penetration client;
the intranet penetration mechanism is connected to the intranet penetration server through the intranet penetration client, and the service is issued to a public network.
In some embodiments, the detecting that the service needs to be provided to the outside by the IP providing service includes: the IP providing Service detects that the Service describes the condition that a public network IP and a port which is open to the outside are needed.
In some embodiments, the container management service applies for server load balancing to a public cloud, creates a container of an intranet pass-through service, and sends a public network IP and a port to the IP providing service, and the method includes: container management service applies for server load balancing to public cloud, container management service establishes the container that the intranet pierces through the service end, server load balancing is with rear end service group configuration the intranet pierces through the cloud host computer at service end's container place, public network IP and the port after the container management platform will dispose are sent to the IP provides service.
In some of these embodiments, the IP provisioning service creating a container for intranet-penetrating clients comprises: and the IP providing Service configures the address of the intranet penetration Service terminal and the domain name of the Service for the intranet penetration client.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for providing public network access to the outside through an intranet kubernets, where the method includes:
the method comprises the steps that a user Service application cancels and releases a Service which is published on a public network and is created by an intranet user kubernets cluster, an intranet penetration mechanism detects Service created by the user Service application in real time through IP providing Service, and the IP providing Service deletes a container of an intranet penetration client and sends an IP release request to a container management platform under the condition that the Service is detected to be deleted;
and the intranet penetration mechanism receives the IP release request through the container management platform, the container management platform sends the IP release request to the public cloud, and deletes the container of the intranet penetration server.
In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a system for providing public network access to the outside through an intranet kubernets, where the system includes: the system comprises a user business application, an IP providing service, a container management platform, an intranet penetration client and an intranet penetration service end, wherein the user business application and the IP providing service are deployed in an intranet user kubernets cluster, the container management service is deployed in the container management platform, and the container management platform is deployed in a public cloud;
the IP providing Service detects the Service created by the user Service application in real time, and sends a request instruction to the container management platform when the IP providing Service detects that the Service needs to provide the Service to the outside;
the container management service receives the request instruction, applies for load balancing to a public cloud server, creates a container of the intranet penetration service end, and sends a public network IP and a port to the IP providing service;
the IP providing service receives the public network IP and the port, and the IP providing service creates a container of the intranet penetrating client;
and the intranet penetration client is connected to the intranet penetration server to release the service to the public network.
In some embodiments, the detecting that the service needs to be provided to the outside by the IP providing service includes: the IP providing Service detects that the Service describes the condition that a public network IP and a port which is open to the outside are needed.
In some embodiments, the container management service applies for server load balancing to a public cloud, creates a container of the intranet pass-through service, and sends a public network IP and a port to the IP providing service, and the system includes: container management service applies for server load balancing to public cloud, container management service establishes the container that the intranet pierces through the service end, server load balancing is with rear end service group configuration the intranet pierces through the cloud host computer at service end's container place, public network IP and the port after the container management platform will dispose are sent to the IP provides service.
In some of these embodiments, the IP provisioning service creating the container for the intranet pass-through client comprises: and the IP providing Service configures the address of the intranet penetration Service terminal and the domain name of the Service for the intranet penetration client.
In some of these embodiments, the system comprises:
the method comprises the following steps that a user Service application cancels the release of a Service which is published on a public network and is created by an intranet user kubernets cluster, the IP providing Service detects the Service created by the user Service application in real time, and deletes a container of an intranet penetrating client side and sends an IP release request to the container management Service under the condition that the Service is detected to be deleted;
the container management service receives the IP release request, the container management service sends the IP release request to a public cloud, and the container management platform deletes the container of the intranet penetration service end.
Compared with the related technology, the method and the system for providing public network access for the external through the intranet kubernets provided by the embodiment of the application detect the Service created by the user Service application in real time through the IP providing Service, when the IP providing Service detects that the Service needs to provide the Service for the external, the IP providing Service sends a request instruction to the container management platform, the container management Service receives the request instruction, the container management Service applies for load balance to the public cloud application server, the container management Service creates a container of an intranet penetration Service end, the container management Service sends the public network IP and a port to the IP providing Service, the IP providing Service receives the public network IP and the port, the IP providing Service creates a container of an intranet penetration client, the intranet penetration client is connected to the intranet penetration Service end to issue the Service to the public network, and the problem that the efficiency is low due to the fact that manual configuration is needed for providing public network access for the Service deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster is solved, the method and the device realize the automatic configuration of the service provided by the intranet in the kubernets cluster to access the public network, and improve the working efficiency.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the present application will be described and illustrated below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments provided in the present application without any inventive step are within the scope of protection of the present application.
It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only examples or embodiments of the present application, and that it is also possible for a person skilled in the art to apply the present application to other similar contexts on the basis of these drawings without inventive effort. Moreover, it should be appreciated that in the development of any such actual implementation, as in any engineering or design project, numerous implementation-specific decisions must be made to achieve the developers' specific goals, such as compliance with system-related and business-related constraints, which may vary from one implementation to another.
Reference in the specification to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the specification. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Those of ordinary skill in the art will explicitly and implicitly appreciate that the embodiments described herein may be combined with other embodiments without conflict.
Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms referred to herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs. Reference to "a," "an," "the," and similar words throughout this application are not to be construed as limiting in number, and may refer to the singular or the plural. The present application is directed to the use of the terms "including," "comprising," "having," and any variations thereof, which are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions; for example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or modules (elements) is not limited to the listed steps or elements, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Reference to "connected," "coupled," and the like in this application is not intended to be limited to physical or mechanical connections, but may include electrical connections, whether direct or indirect. The term "plurality" as referred to herein means two or more. "and/or" describes an association relationship of associated objects, meaning that three relationships may exist, for example, "A and/or B" may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The character "/" generally indicates that the former and latter associated objects are in an "or" relationship. Reference herein to the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like, are merely to distinguish similar objects and do not denote a particular ordering for the objects.
In the related art, fig. 1 is a block diagram of a system for providing public network access capability according to an intranet kubernets cluster in the related art, as shown in fig. 1, a user in the related art realizes intranet penetration through business software, firstly, a client of the business software needs to be installed in an intranet server, when the user has a service to be published, the service to be published needs to be manually configured on the business client, and then the service is published on a public network through a business server, so that security of data transmission is not guaranteed, cost is increased due to the use of the business software, and in addition, when a large amount of services need to be published, frequent manual configuration causes reduction of work efficiency.
An embodiment of the present application provides a system for providing public network access to the outside through an intranet kubernets, where fig. 2 is a structural block diagram of the system for providing public network access capability through the intranet kubernets according to the embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 2, the system includes: the system comprises a user business application 21, an IP providing service 22, a container management service 23, a container management platform 24, an intranet penetration service terminal 25 and an intranet penetration client 26, wherein the user business application 21 and the IP providing service 22 are deployed in an intranet user kubernets cluster, the container management service 23 is deployed in the container management platform 24, and the container management platform 24 is deployed in a public cloud.
The IP providing Service 22 detects Service created by the user Service application 21 in real time, when the IP providing Service 22 detects that Service needs to be provided to the outside, the IP providing Service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management platform 24, the container management Service 23 receives the request instruction, the container management Service 23 applies for Server Load balancing (Server Load Balancer) to public cloud, the container management Service 23 creates a container of an intranet penetration Service end 25, the container management Service 23 sends public network IP and ports to the IP providing Service 22, the IP providing Service 22 receives public network IP and ports, the IP providing Service 22 creates a container of an intranet penetration client 26, the intranet penetration client 26 is connected to the intranet penetration Service end 25, and Service is issued to the public network.
Through the embodiment of the application, as the IP providing Service 22 detects the Service created by the user Service application 21 in real time, and when it is detected that the Service needs to be provided to the outside, the IP providing Service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management Service 23, the container management Service 23 applies for resources to the public cloud and creates a container of the intranet penetration Service end 25, and returns a message to the IP providing Service 22, the IP providing Service 22 creates a container of the intranet penetration client 26, the intranet penetration client 26 is connected to the intranet penetration Service end 25, and issues the Service to the public network, the user does not need to manually apply for the public cloud resources, and manually configures the intranet penetration Service end 25 and the intranet penetration client 26, the problem that the Service provided by the intranet in the intranet kubernets cluster needs to be manually configured, so that the efficiency is low is solved, the automatic configuration of the Service provided by the intranet kubernets cluster is realized, the working efficiency is improved.
In some embodiments, the IP providing Service 22 detects, in real time, a Service created by the user Service application 21, where the Service created by the user Service application 21 is of a ClusterIP type, and the Service of the type can only be accessed inside a kubernets cluster, and it should be noted that the Service is a high-level abstraction in the kubernets. Service logically groups of containers (Pod) and sets a policy for access. Grouping is generally achieved by means of Label and Selector, App is used as Key, Database (Database) and front end module (Frontend) are used as Value to distinguish container group (Pod), and by means of Selector (App = Frontend and App = Database), these container group (Pod) can be divided into two logic groups, namely two services, services in kubernets cluster are of three types, services of ClusterIP type obtain their VirtualIP through ClusterIP, VirtualIP is used for communicating with other services and can only be accessed inside clusters; a Service of the NodePort type can create a Cluster IP and map one port on all worker nodes to the Service; the LoadBalancer type Service can automatically create NodePort and ClusterIP, the external load balancer can automatically go up, the Service can be exposed on a static port, and the Service can be exposed to the public network through the load balancer provided by the underlying cluster provider.
In some specific embodiments, the user installs the IP providing service 22 on its own kubernets cluster, the IP providing service 22 actively registers the user kubernets cluster with the cloud platform where the container management platform 24 is located, and the case where the IP providing service 22 detects that the service needs to provide the service to the outside includes: the IP providing Service 22 detects that Service describes a situation that a public network IP and a port open to the outside are required, wherein a user declares a yaml file of the external providing Service in the user Service application 21, and the contents are roughly as follows:
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
annotations:
service.beta.Kubernetes.io/lstack.ip.provider: '10M'
# indicates an IP offering a bandwidth of 10M.
name: app-dist-slb
namespace: default
ports:
- name: cs-service-0
port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 80
selector:
app: app-dist
type: clusterIp
The IP providing Service 22 detects that the user writes the above yaml file through the user Service application 21, actively requests the public network IP with 10M bandwidth to the container management Service 23, the container management Service 23 creates a container of the intranet penetration Service 25, applies for the public network IP or Server Load balancing (Server Load Balancer) to the public cloud, and binds to the operation host of the corresponding container of the intranet penetration Service 25, the container management Service 23 sends the monitoring port and token of the authentication authority of the public network IP and intranet penetration Service 25 to the IP providing Service 22, the IP providing Service 22 receives the returned information, generates a configuration file according to the returned monitoring port and token of the intranet penetration Service 25 and token of the authentication authority of the public network IP and intranet penetration Service 25, and the monitoring port 80 defined in the Service describing the port requiring the public network IP and the port open to the outside, creates a container of the intranet penetration client 26, the general contents of the configuration file are as follows:
[common]
server _ addr = x.x.x.x// server address
server _ port = 7000// service port
token = 123456
[http]
type = tcp
local _ ip = app-dist-slb// domain name pointing to service
local _ port = 80// app-dist-slb port of this service
remote _ port = 80// open 80 ports at the server
The configuration file includes, but is not limited to, an address of the intranet penetration server, a port opened to the outside, a domain name pointing to a service, a port for providing a service to the outside, a token for authentication authority, and a port opened at the intranet penetration server 25, and after the intranet penetration server 25 and the intranet penetration client 26 are automatically configured, the intranet penetration client 26 is connected to the intranet penetration server 25 to issue the service to the public network.
Through the embodiment, the IP providing Service 22 detects the Service created by the user Service application 21 in real time, and when detecting that the Service needs to provide Service to the outside, the IP providing Service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management Service 23, the container management Service 23 applies for a public network IP with a bandwidth of 10M and a container creating an intranet penetration Service end 25 to the public cloud, and returns a message to the IP providing Service 22, the IP providing Service 22 creates a container of an intranet penetration client 26, and configures the intranet penetration client 26 through a configuration file, the intranet penetration client 26 is connected to the intranet penetration Service end 25, and issues the Service to the public network, so that the user does not need to manually apply for public cloud resources, and manually configures the intranet penetration Service end 25 and the intranet penetration client 26, and the problem that the Service providing public network access deployed in an intranet kubernet cluster needs to be manually configured, which causes low efficiency is solved, the method and the device realize the automatic configuration of the service provided by the intranet in the kubernets cluster to access the public network, and improve the working efficiency.
In some embodiments, the IP providing Service 22 detects services created by the user Service application 21 in real time, and when it is detected that services corresponding to a plurality of services need to be provided to the outside;
the IP providing service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management platform 24, and the container management service 23 receives the request instruction;
the container management Service 23 applies for a plurality of server load balances from the public cloud, and the plurality of server load balances correspond to the plurality of services one by one;
the container management service 23 creates a plurality of containers of the intranet penetration service terminals 25, and the plurality of server load balancing configuration backend servers point to the containers of the intranet penetration service terminals 25 one by one;
the container management service 23 sends a plurality of public network IPs and a plurality of ports to the IP providing service 22, and the IP providing service 22 receives the public network IPs and the ports;
the IP providing Service 22 creates a container of a plurality of intranet-penetrating clients, and the intranet-penetrating clients 26 are connected to the intranet-penetrating server 25 in a one-to-one correspondence, and distribute services corresponding to a plurality of services to the public network. According to the embodiment, the IP providing Service 22 automatically creates a plurality of containers of intranet penetration clients, the container management Service 23 automatically creates containers of a plurality of intranet penetration servers 25, the intranet penetration clients 26 are connected to the intranet penetration servers 25 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and issues services corresponding to a plurality of services to the public network, so that the problem that the efficiency is low due to the fact that manual configuration is required to be carried out when services deployed in an intranet kubernets cluster provide public network access in batches is solved, automatic configuration of the services deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster provide public network access in batches is achieved, and working efficiency is improved.
In some embodiments, the process of canceling, by the user Service application 21, the Service published to the public network by the intranet user kubernets cluster is as follows, where the IP providing Service 22 detects, in real time, the Service created by the user Service application 21, and in a case that the Service is detected to be deleted, the IP providing Service 22 deletes the container of the intranet transparent client 26, and sends an IP release request to the container management Service 23;
the container management service 23 receives the IP release request, the container management service 23 sends the IP release request to the public cloud, and the container management platform 24 deletes the container of the intranet penetration service 25.
Through the embodiment, the IP providing Service 22 detects the Service created by the user Service application 21 in real time, and when detecting that the Service has been deleted, the IP providing Service 22 deletes the container of the intranet-penetrating client 26 and sends an IP release request to the container management Service 23, and the container management Service 23 receives the IP release request, sends the IP release request to the public cloud, and deletes the container of the intranet-penetrating server 25, so that the user does not need to manually release the public network IP of the public cloud, and manually deletes the intranet-penetrating server 25 and the intranet-penetrating client 26, thereby solving the problem that the efficiency is low because the Service deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster is manually configured to cancel the public network access, realizing the automatic configuration of the Service deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster to cancel the public network access, and improving the working efficiency.
The embodiment of the present application provides a method for providing public network access to the outside through an intranet kubernets, fig. 3 is a flowchart of a method for providing public network access capability through the intranet kubernets according to the embodiment of the present application, and as shown in fig. 3, the method includes the following steps:
s302, the intranet penetration mechanism detects the Service created by the user Service application 21 in real time through the IP providing Service 22;
s304, when the IP providing service 22 detects that the service needs to be provided to the outside, the IP providing service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management platform 24;
s306, the intranet penetration mechanism receives a request instruction through the container management service 23 deployed on the container management platform 24, the container management service 23 applies load balance to the public cloud server, the container management service 23 creates a container of the intranet penetration service end 25, and the container management service 23 sends the public network IP and a port to the IP providing service 22;
s308, the intranet penetration mechanism receives the public network IP and the port through the IP providing service 22, and the IP providing service 22 creates a container of the intranet penetration client 26;
s310, the intranet penetration mechanism is connected to the intranet penetration server 25 through the intranet penetration client 26, and issues the service to the public network.
Through steps S302 to S310 in the embodiment of the present application, the IP providing Service 22 detects, in real time, a Service created by the user Service application 21, and when it is detected that a Service needs to be provided to the outside, the IP providing Service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management Service 23, the container management Service 23 applies for resources to the public cloud and creates a container of the intranet penetration Service end 25, and returns a message to the IP providing Service 22, the IP providing Service 22 creates a container of the intranet penetration client 26, the intranet penetration client 26 is connected to the intranet penetration Service end 25, and issues the Service to the public network, so that a user does not need to manually apply for the public cloud resources and manually configure the intranet penetration Service end 25 and the intranet penetration client 26, thereby solving the problem that the manual configuration of the Service providing public network access deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster is necessary to perform the manual configuration, and realizing the automatic configuration of the Service providing public network access deployed in the intranet kuberes cluster, the working efficiency is improved.
In some embodiments, the case where the IP providing service 22 detects that the service needs to be provided to the outside includes: the IP providing Service 22 detects that the Service describes a case where a public network IP and a port open to the outside are required.
In some embodiments, the container management service 23 applies for server load balancing to a public cloud, the container management service 23 creates a container of the intranet penetration service 25, and the container management service 23 sends a public network IP and a port to the IP providing service 22, and the method includes: the container management service 23 applies for server load balancing to the public cloud, the container management service 23 creates a container of the intranet penetration service end 25, the server load balancing configures the backend service group as a cloud host where the container of the intranet penetration service end 25 is located, and the container management platform 24 sends the configured public network IP and port to the IP providing service 22.
In some of these embodiments, the IP provisioning service 22 creating a container for intranet pass-through clients 26 includes: the IP providing Service 22 configures the intranet pass-through client 26 with the address of the intranet pass-through server 25 and the domain name of Service.
In some embodiments, fig. 4 is a flowchart of a method for canceling public network access capability according to the intranet kubernets of this embodiment, and as shown in fig. 4, the method includes the following steps:
s402, the intranet penetration mechanism detects the Service created by the user Service application 21 in real time through the IP providing Service 22;
s404, when the IP providing Service 22 detects that Service is deleted, the IP providing Service 22 deletes the container of the intranet penetration client 26 and sends an IP release request to the container management platform 24;
s406, the intranet penetration mechanism receives the IP release request through the container management platform 24, the container management platform 24 sends the IP release request to the public cloud, and the container of the intranet penetration server 25 is deleted;
through steps S402 to S406 in this embodiment, the IP providing Service 22 detects, in real time, a Service created by the user Service application 21, and when detecting that the Service has been deleted, the IP providing Service 22 deletes a container of the intranet penetration client 26 and sends an IP release request to the container management Service 23, and the container management Service 23 receives the IP release request, sends the IP release request to the public cloud and deletes a container of the intranet penetration server 25, so that the user does not need to manually release the public network IP of the public cloud, and manually delete a container of the intranet penetration server 25 and a container of the intranet penetration client 26, thereby solving the problem that the efficiency is low because manual configuration is necessary for canceling the public network access by a Service deployed in an intranet kubernets cluster, and realizing automatic configuration of canceling the public network access by a Service deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster, thereby improving the working efficiency.
In some specific embodiments, fig. 5 is a flowchart of a public network access capability method of an intranet kubernets according to the specific embodiment, and as shown in fig. 5, the method includes the following steps:
s502, the intranet penetration mechanism detects the Service created by the user Service application 21 in real time through the IP providing Service 22;
s504, when the IP providing Service 22 detects that the Service describes a port which needs the public network IP and is open to the outside, the IP providing Service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management platform 24;
s506, the intranet penetration mechanism receives the request instruction through the container management service 23 deployed on the container management platform 24, the container management service 23 applies for server load balancing to the public cloud, the container management service 23 creates a container of the intranet penetration service end 25, the server load balancing configures the backend service set as a cloud host where the container of the intranet penetration service end 25 is located, and the container management platform 24 sends the configured public network IP and port to the IP providing service 22;
s508, the internal network penetration mechanism receives the public network IP and the port through the IP providing Service 22, the IP providing Service 22 creates a container of the internal network penetration client 26, and the IP providing Service 22 configures the address of the internal network penetration Service 25 and the domain name of the Service for the internal network penetration client 26;
s510, the intranet penetration mechanism is connected to the intranet penetration server 25 through the intranet penetration client 26, and issues the service to the public network;
s512, when the IP providing Service 22 detects that Service is deleted, the IP providing Service 22 deletes the container of the intranet penetration client 26 and sends an IP release request to the container management platform 24;
s514, the intranet penetration mechanism receives the IP release request through the container management platform 24, and the container management platform 24 sends the IP release request to the public cloud and deletes the container of the intranet penetration server 25.
Through steps S502 to S514 of this embodiment, the IP providing Service 22 detects, in real time, a Service created by the user Service application 21, and when detecting that a Service needs to be provided to the outside, the IP providing Service 22 sends a request instruction to the container management Service 23, the container management Service 23 applies for a public network IP and creates a container of the intranet penetration Service 25 to the public cloud, and returns a message to the IP providing Service 22, the IP providing Service 22 creates a container of the intranet penetration client 26, and configures the intranet penetration client 26 through a configuration file, the intranet penetration client 26 is connected to the intranet penetration Service 25, and issues the Service to the public network; under the condition that Service is detected to be deleted, the IP providing Service 22 deletes the container of the intranet penetration client 26 and sends an IP release request to the container management Service 23, the container management Service 23 receives the IP release request and sends the IP release request to the public cloud and deletes the container of the intranet penetration client 25, so that a user does not need to manually apply or release the public network IP of the public cloud, manually create or delete the container of the intranet penetration client 25 and the container of the intranet penetration client 26, the problem of low efficiency caused by manual configuration when services deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster provide public network access and cancel public network access functions is solved, automatic configuration of providing public network access and canceling public network access for the services deployed in the intranet kubernets cluster is achieved, and working efficiency is improved.
It should be understood by those skilled in the art that various features of the above-described embodiments can be combined in any combination, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of features in the above-described embodiments are not described in detail, but rather, all combinations of features which are not inconsistent with each other should be construed as being within the scope of the present disclosure.
The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present application, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the concept of the present application, which falls within the scope of protection of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.