Mapping of software code via user interface summarization

• US 10,223,079 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2017
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Peng, Pistoia, Marco
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Chat C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Slachta, Douglas M
• Application Number:
  US15/842,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20180329695A1
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/325 Hash tables
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3347 using vector based model
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management

Abstract

Techniques for identifying similar software code are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises: based on detection of an input, determining, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, a user interface functionality associated with a website; and based on a likelihood that the user interface functionality and a result of a query have a defined level of correlation, matching, by the device, the result of the query to the user interface functionality. The computer-implemented method can further comprise mapping, by the device, a vector associated with the website, to an integer value, employing a hash function.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

based on detection of an input;

generating, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, a summary of a first user interface page of a website based on an analysis of extracted display page data for display in the first user interface page; and

determining, by the device, a first user interface functionality associated with a user interface element of the first user interface page of the website based on the summary;

based on a determination that the first user interface functionality and a result of a query have a defined level of correlation, matching, by the device, the result of the query to the first user interface functionality, wherein the result of the query comprises a second user interface functionality associated with a second user interface page that is distinct from the first user interface page, the defined level of correlation is generated based on determining one or more terms of the result of the query that have a defined level of equivalence to a term in the summary, and the defined level of equivalence for a term of the one or more terms is computed by counting how many editing operations should be applied to transform the term of the one or more terms into the term in the summary; and

based on the result of the query, generating, by the device, the second user interface functionality for another website by reusing software code associated with the user interface element.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the defined level of correlation is based on a semantic correlation between the first user interface functionality and the second user interface functionality.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the extracted display page data is selected from the group consisting of semantic data and visual data.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the device is a mobile device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the summary is a textual summary describing a context of the first user interface page.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user interface element is an icon of the website.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the icon is associated with a search application.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first user interface functionality is associated with a table.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the table is associated with a calendar application.