Method system and computer readable medium for identifying assets in an asset store

• US 10,198,507 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Original Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Inventors: Pawar, Prashant P, Joshi, Neeraj, Joshi, Sameer Govind
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cam Linh T
• Application Number:
  US14/580,037
• Publication Number:
  US 20150186507A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,506 Days
• Field of Search: 707739, 707758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/36 Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri

Abstract

A method system and computer readable medium for a method of identifying assets in an asset store, said method comprising, receiving an input representing a predetermined requirement, generating semantic based segments of the predetermined requirement, from the received input, mapping at least one parameter for each of the assets in the asset store with the generated segments, the parameter being one of metadata, supporting documents and source code, identifying at least one asset in the asset store based on the mapping, the asset being relevant to the predetermined requirement and providing as output the identified asset.

Claims

1. A method of identifying software assets in an asset store, said method comprising:

indexing software assets of the asset store to build an index of parameters of the software assets;

receiving an input representing a predetermined requirement;

generating a semantic based vector of the predetermined requirement, from the received input;

using a cosine similarity algorithm with the generated semantic based vector of the predetermined requirement, to map at least one parameter of the parameters for each of the software assets in the asset store with the generated segments, the at least one parameter being obtained from the index and selected from metadata, supporting documents, or source code;

identifying at least one software asset in the asset store based on the mapping, the identified software asset being relevant to the predetermined requirement; and

providing the identified software asset as output.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating semantic based segments of the predetermined requirement comprises analyzing an input query to identify keywords and semantic interpretations relevant to the predetermined requirement.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method of identifying comprises searching across a native asset store and additionally searching across a set of external asset stores thus integrated with the native asset store.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising sourcing the software assets in the asset store by crowd-sourcing the software assets.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein crowd-sourcing the software assets comprises of submission of software assets from external sources, further wherein the external sources comprise one or more of an individual submission, a crowd sourcing platform, or an idea generation platform.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting the software asset to the user in a software as a service model.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein presenting the software asset to the user comprises passing the software asset through a gating criteria to identify its compatibility to be published as a web service, the gating criteria comprising client and technology specific checks, code quality checks, and code quality metrics checks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one parameter for each of the software assets in the asset store is selected from a template that is based on an asset type of each of the software assets.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the asset type is a web service type for a web service asset of the asset store, and the at least one parameter for the web service asset includes a data type and an interface of the web service asset.

10. A system for identifying software assets in an asset store, said system comprising:

an input unit for receiving an input representing a predetermined requirement;

a processing unit for generating a semantic based vector of the predetermined requirement from the received input;

selecting at least one parameter for each of the software assets of the asset store with a pre-defined template, the template based on a type of the respective software asset, the template identifying one or more items of metadata for the type of the respective software asset;

a mapping unit for using a cosine similarity algorithm with the generated semantic based vector of the predetermined requirement, to map the at least one parameter with the generated segments, the at least one parameter being one of metadata, supporting documents, or source code;

an identification unit for identifying at least one software asset in the asset store based on the mapping, the identified software asset being relevant to the predetermined requirement; and

an output unit providing the identified software asset as output.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said asset store comprises:

a native asset store; and

at least one of an external asset store, an Integrated Development environment, or a pre-configured public web API store.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein generating semantic based segments of the predetermined requirement comprises analyzing an input query to identify keywords and semantic interpretations relevant to the predetermined requirement.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the parameter for mapping is obtained from an indexing of each of the software assets in the asset store to extract the parameters linked to the respective software asset.

14. The system of claim 10, further comprising sourcing the software assets in the asset store by crowd-sourcing the software assets.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein crowd-sourcing the software assets comprises receiving submission of software assets from external sources, and wherein the external sources comprise an individual submission, a crowd sourcing platform, or an idea generation platform.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein crowd-sourcing the software assets further comprises:

identifying a uniqueness of a particular software asset;

acknowledging a submission of the particular software asset to the asset store;

rewarding a corresponding contributor for the successfully submitted particular software asset; and

managing an intellectual property of the particular software asset.

17. The system of claim 10, further comprising presenting the software asset to the user in a software as a service model.

18. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that upon execution cause a computer to:

receive an input representing a predetermined requirement;

use the received input to generate a semantic based vector of the predetermined requirement;

extract metadata for respective software assets of an asset store, the metadata extracted by using a pre-defined template, based on an asset type of each of the respective software assets, that identifies one or more items of the metadata to be extracted for the asset type;

map the extracted metadata for each of the software assets in the asset store, wherein the mapping comprises using a cosine similarity algorithm with the generated semantic based vector of the predetermined requirement;

identify at least one software asset in the asset store based on the mapping, the identified software asset being relevant to the predetermined requirement; and

provide the identified software asset as output.