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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Aharon Abadi, Petach Tikva, IL;

Idan Ben-Harrush, Givat Elah, IL;

Shmuel Kallner, Tal Menashe, IL;

Oleg Sternberg, Haifa, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/41 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/433 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method for identifying control dependencies between a source code and selected paths though the source code comprising: receiving an source code having a plurality of application functionalities, calculating a control graph dataset mapping a plurality of code segments of the source code into a plurality of source code execution paths, defining at least one control dependency from at least one source code execution path to the source code, receiving a subgroup defining a plurality of selected application functionalities from the plurality of application functionalities, identifying at least one of the plurality of source code execution paths that covers suitable code segments of the plurality of code segments which are required for performing application functionalities from the subset, and identifying at least one control dependency to eliminate within the one identified source code execution path.


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