Asset composition

• US 20060117044A1
• Filed: 01/17/2006
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Bloesch, Anthony
• Granted Patent: US 7,870,096 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

A system and method facilitating asset composition based, at least in part, upon metadata (e.g., asset specification) describing compositional property(ies) of the asset(s) is provided. Asset specification(s) (e.g., metadata) that describe asset(s) to efficiently search and/or match asset(s) are employed. The system can facilitate matching (e.g., automatically) the particular software component to available server(s). Thus, the system can provide a flexible manner of describing asset(s) and an efficient way of locating matching description(s).

Claims

1. A method of matching assets comprising:

generating a first n-bit hash code for a service section of an interface;

generating a second n-bit hash for a requirement section of another interface; and

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comparing the first n-bit hash code and the second n-bit hash code to determine whether assets potentially match.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether an expression in the requirement section matches the service section.

3. A data packet transmitted between two or more computer components that facilitates asset composition, the data packet comprising:

an application composed of assets, the assets identified based, at least in part, upon compositional properties of assets and ports that describe respective aspects of the assets that support composition.