Mapping of software code via user interface summarization

• US 10,489,127 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2018
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• 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:
  US16/217,959
• Publication Number:
  US 20190114156A1
• Time in Patent Office: 349 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, wherein the defined level of correlation is based on a quantity of operations needed to transform one or more terms associated with the second user interface functionality into one or more terms associated with the first user interface functionality; 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 analysis associated with 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 user interface element is an icon of the website.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the icon is associated with a search application.

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

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the table is associated with a calendar application.

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

10. A system, comprising:

a memory that stores computer executable components; and

a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components comprise;

an extraction component that;

based on detection of an input to the system;

generates a summary of a first user interface page of a first mobile application based on an analysis of extracted display page data for display in the first user interface page, and

determines a first user interface functionality of software code associated with a user interface element of the from a first user interface page based on the summary; and

a matching component that;

based on a determination that the first user interface functionality and a result of a query have a defined level of correlation, matches 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, wherein the defined level of correlation is based on a quantity of operations needed to transform one or more terms associated with the second user interface functionality into one or more terms associated with the first user interface functionality; and

based on the result of the query, generates the second user interface functionality for a second mobile application by reusing software code associated with the user interface element.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the defined level of correlation is based on a semantic analysis associated with the first user interface functionality and the second user interface functionality.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the extracted display page data is selected from the group consisting of semantic data and visual data.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the first mobile application and the second mobile application operate on a mobile device.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the user interface element is an icon of the mobile application.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the icon is associated with a search application.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the summary is a textual summary describing a context of the first user interface page.

17. A computer program product that facilitates a software code word search, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

based on detection of an input to a system;

generate 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

determine, by the processor, 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, match, by the processor, 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, wherein the defined level of correlation is based on a quantity of operations needed to transform one or more terms associated with the second user interface functionality into one or more terms associated with the first user interface functionality; and

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

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the defined level of correlation is based on a semantic analysis associated with the first user interface functionality and the second user interface functionality.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the extracted display page data is selected from the group consisting of semantic data and visual data.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the website is associated with a mobile device.