MECHANISM FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED VISUALIZATION OF APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE/APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE-RELATED INFORMATION

• US 20120131563A1
• Filed: 11/23/2010
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Das, Kushal
• Granted Patent: US 8,938,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software

Abstract

A mechanism for providing customized visualization of Application Binary Interface-related information is described. A method of embodiments of the invention includes querying a database storing interface provisioning details and interface usage details relating to application binary interfaces (ABIs) associated with shared libraries provided by an operating system running on a computer system. The database further stores comparison results obtained from comparing the interface provisioning details with the interface usage details. The method further includes extracting a set of information from the database, and customizing visualization representation of the set of information. The set of information is composed of any part or all of the interface provisioning details, the interface usage details, and the comparison results.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

querying a database storing interface provisioning details and interface usage details relating to application binary interfaces (ABIs) associated with shared libraries provided by an operating system running on a computer system, wherein the database further stores comparison results obtained from comparing the interface provisioning details with the interface usage details;

extracting a set of information from the database, wherein the set of information is composed of any part or all of the interface provisioning details, the interface usage details, and the comparison results; and

customizing visualization representation of the set of information.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the customized visualization representation, wherein the customized visualization representation includes a graphical or chart-like display of the set of information.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interfaces further include application programming interfaces (APIs).

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein customizing comprises processing the set of information based on one or more of predetermined criteria, provider requests, customer requests, customer history, shared library usage history, and shared library usage forecast.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the provider requests are placed by a provider, wherein the provider includes an entity to create and provide the operating system and the shared libraries.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the provider to customize support criteria for the one or more shared libraries based, at least partially, on the support criteria policy recommendations.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the support criteria are customized based, at least partially, on one or more of customer requests, customer history, user-defined predetermined criteria, anticipated future use of the shared libraries, and historical use of the shared libraries.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interfaces correspond to operating system functions associated with the shared libraries, wherein the operating system functions relate to one or more of file accesses, networking capabilities, user interface functions, thread management, process management, and common utilities.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interface usage detail is further based on a frequency at which the one or more interfaces are used by the one or more local software programs that are part of the operating system and independent of the one or more third-party software programs.

10. A system comprising:

a host computing device having a memory to store instructions for customized visualization and a processing device to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the processing device to;

query a database storing interface provisioning details and interface usage details relating to application binary interfaces (ABIs) associated with shared libraries provided by an operating system running on a computer system, wherein the database further stores comparison results obtained from comparing the interface provisioning details with the interface usage details;

extract a set of information from the database, wherein the set of information is composed of any part or all of the interface provisioning details, the interface usage details, and the comparison results; and

customize visualization representation of the set of information.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to display the customized visualization representation, wherein the customized visualization representation includes a graphical or chart-like display of the set of information.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the interfaces further include application programming interfaces (APIs).

13. The system of claim 10, wherein customizing comprises processing the set of information based on one or more of predetermined criteria, provider requests, customer requests, customer history, shared library usage history, and shared library usage forecast.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the provider requests are placed by a provider, wherein the provider includes an entity to create and provide the operating system and the shared libraries.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the provider to customize support criteria for the one or more shared libraries based, at least partially, on the support criteria policy recommendations.

16. A machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform a method, the method comprising:

querying a database storing interface provisioning details and interface usage details relating to application binary interfaces (ABIs) associated with shared libraries provided by an operating system running on a computer system, wherein the database further stores comparison results obtained from comparing the interface provisioning details with the interface usage details;

extracting a set of information from the database, wherein the set of information is composed of any part or all of the interface provisioning details, the interface usage details, and the comparison results; and

customizing visualization representation of the set of information

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprising displaying the customized visualization representation, wherein the customized visualization representation includes a graphical or chart-like display of the set of information.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the interfaces further include application programming interfaces (APIs).

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein customizing comprises processing the set of information based on one or more of predetermined criteria, provider requests, customer requests, customer history, shared library usage history, and shared library usage forecast.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the provider requests are placed by a provider, wherein the provider includes an entity to create and provide the operating system and the shared libraries.