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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Denmark, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 8/70 (2013.01); G06F 8/75 (2013.01); G06F 11/36 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include receiving, by a computer, application code including a set of software elements, and identifying dependencies between the software elements. Based on the dependencies, a respective ranking score can be calculated for each of the software elements, the respective ranking score for a given software element indicating a likelihood that the given software element is configured as an application programming interface (API).