SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED FILE COMPARISON

• US 20110072027A1
• Filed: 09/22/2009
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Industry Software Limited (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Zhang, Xianhong, Wu, Yunfei, Yin, Tiancai, Hsu, Shingchi
• Granted Patent: US 8,458,204 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/194 Calculation of difference between files

Abstract

A method and related data processing system and computer readable medium. A method includes receiving, in a data processing system, a first file and a second file, and receiving comparison rules. This method includes comparing the first file and the second file, by the data processing system, according to the comparison rules, and producing an output report corresponding to the comparison.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, in a data processing system, a first file and a second file;

receiving comparison rules in the data processing system;

comparing the first file and the second file, by the data processing system, according to the comparison rules; and

producing an output report corresponding to the comparison.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of nodes and attributes of the first and second files that must be compared.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of nodes and attributes of the first and second files that must not be compared.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparison rules include comparisons based on a data type and a pattern comparison.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparison rules include comparisons for data types including integer and double.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of key attributes to be compared.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparison rules include a node relations definition of parent-child XML node relationships.

8. A data processing system comprising a processor and accessible memory, the data processing system particularly configured to perform the steps of:

receiving a first file and a second file;

receiving comparison rules;

comparing the first file and the second file according to the comparison rules; and

producing an output report corresponding to the comparison.

9. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of nodes and attributes of the first and second files that must be compared.

10. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of nodes and attributes of the first and second files that must not be compared.

11. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the comparison rules include comparisons based on a data type and a pattern comparison.

12. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the comparison rules include comparisons for data types including integer and double.

13. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of key attributes to be compared.

14. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the comparison rules include a node relations definition of parent-child XML node relationships.

15. A tangible machine-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a data processing system to perform the steps of:

receiving a first file and a second file;

receiving comparison rules;

comparing the first file and the second file according to the comparison rules; and

producing an output report corresponding to the comparison.

16. The machine readable medium of claim 15, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of nodes and attributes of the first and second files that must be compared.

17. The machine readable medium of claim 15, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of nodes and attributes of the first and second files that must not be compared.

18. The machine readable medium of claim 15, wherein the comparison rules include comparisons based on a data type and a pattern comparison.

19. The machine readable medium of claim 15, wherein the comparison rules include comparisons for data types including integer and double.

20. The machine readable medium of claim 15, wherein the comparison rules include a definition of key attributes to be compared.

21. The machine readable medium of claim 15, wherein the comparison rules include a node relations definition of parent-child XML node relationships.