Method and system for creating self-assembling components through component languages

• US 8,112,744 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2008
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DLOO Incorporated
• Original Assignee: DLOO Incorporated
• Inventors: Geisinger, Nile Josiah
• Primary Examiner(s): Dam, Tuan
• Assistant Examiner(s): TECKLU, ISAAC TUKU
• Application Number:
  US12/013,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20080134141A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,488 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/143
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse

Abstract

A system for self-assembling software components is described herein. In one embodiment, a system includes a first and second set of language components, where each language component defines at least one part of language runnable on a computer by associating a piece of grammar of the language with at least one software component that implements the piece of grammar. The system further includes a request broker that upon being provided with a section of code written in the language matches syntactic appearances of the first set of language components in the section of code and granting logic to grant access to the language components of the first set whose syntactic appearances the request broker matched, in order to enable self-assemblage of the language components of the first set with language components of the second set.

Claims

1. A system for self-assembling software components, the system comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a first and second set of language components executed in the memory by the processor, wherein each language component defines at least one part of at least one language runnable on a computer by associating a piece of grammar of the at least one language with at least one software component that implements the piece of grammar;

a request broker executed in the memory by the processor that upon being provided with at least one section of code written in the at least one language matches syntactic appearances of the first set of language components in the at least one section of code; and

logic executed in the memory by the processor to grant access to the language components of the first set whose syntactic appearances the request broker matched, in order to enable self-assemblage of the language components of the first set with language components of the second set.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the matching language components implement a subset of the at least one language used by the at least one section of code and are self-assembled with language components of the second set.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one section of code describes at least one requested language component and the matching language components of the first set enable access to be granted to the at least one requested language component.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the request broker receives a set of allowed types of language components.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein a computer on a network self-assembles the language components from other computers on the network as needed.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the language components of the first set are coupled with at least one different component technology and self-assemblage with the second set of language components occurs through a communication protocol of the at least one different component technology.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the request broker finds only a subset of the language components of the first set that implement the at least one section of code written in the at least one language and access is granted to that subset.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein each language component comprises a description of legal ways that a collection of language components and/or tokens are related to each other and at least one software component that implements what those relationships mean.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one language is a formal and/or natural language.

10. A system for self-assembling software components, the system comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a set of language components executed in the memory by the processor that each defines at least one part of at least one language runnable on a computer by associating a piece of grammar of the at least one language with at least one software component that implements the piece of grammar;

a dependency analyzer executed in the memory by the processor that attempts to run the set of language components against at least one section of code and discovers from at least one unrecognized syntactic appearance that at least one language component needed to run the at least one section of code is not available;

a first processing unit to provide the at least one section of the code to request access to the at least one language component that the dependency analyzer discovered;

a second processing unit to access and/or receive the at least one requested language component in view of the at least one section of the code; and

a third processing unit to perform a self-assemble of the first set of language components with the received at least one language component.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the dependency analyzer fails to match the at least one section of the code, and the at least one requested language component implements a subset of the at least one language used by the at least one section of code.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the at least one requested language component is described by the at least one section of code.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the dependency analyzer sends a set of allowed types of the at least one requested language component.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the at least one requested language component is coupled with at least one different component technology and self-assemblage with the set of language components occurs through a communication protocol of the at least one different component technology.

15. The system of claim 10 wherein a computer on a network comprising the dependency analyzer self-assembles the at least one requested language component from at least one other computer on the network.

16. The system of claim 10 wherein each language component comprises a description of legal ways that a collection of language components and/or tokens are related to each other and at least one software component that implements what those relationships mean.

17. The system of claim 10 wherein the at least one requested language component is automatically used to run the at least one section of code upon access being granted.

18. The system of claim 10 further comprising an interactive system wherein the at least one section of code is unrecognized user input.

19. The system of claim 10 wherein the at least one language is a formal and/or natural language.