Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database and file access – Record – file – and data search and comparisons
Reexamination Certificate
2008-02-28
2010-11-09
Stevens, Robert (Department: 2162)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database and file access
Record, file, and data search and comparisons
C717S136000, C717S142000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07831608
ABSTRACT:
Identifying service candidates in legacy source code, including a source code analyzer performing structured and unstructured analyses of computer software source code procedures, a repository storing results of the analyses, a target profile analyzer analyzing a target service description of a Service Oriented Architecture and formulating a query therefrom, a search module querying the repository to identify source code elements that match the target service description, and combining any matches within a predefined distance from each other within the source code, a ranking engine ranking the combined matches in accordance with predefined heuristics, and a procedure aggregator aggregating the combined matches by their location in propinquity to the procedures, comparing interface definitions defined for the service description to entry and exit points of the procedures to identify candidate procedures having similar input and output parameters, and producing a ranked list of candidate procedures that map into the target element.
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Aizenbud-Reshef Netta
Kveler Ksenya
Ronen Inbal
International Business Machines - Corporation
Stevens Robert
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