Harvesting assets for packaged software application configuration

• US 8,234,570 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2009
• Issued: 07/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ananthanarayanan, Rema, Byrnes, Kathleen, Chatterjee, Charbak, Desai, Maharshi, Dhoolia, Pankaj, Goh, Sweefen, Goodwin, Richard T., Gowri, Mangala, Ivan, Anca A., Lee, Juhnyoung, Mani, Senthil Kk, Mazzoleni, Pietro, Mohan, Rakesh, Mukherjee, Debdoot, Rembert, Aubrey J., Sigl, Gerhard, Singh, Manas R. Kumar, Sinha, Vibha S., Srivastava, Biplav
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US12/605,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20110099470A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200, 715/201, 715/202, 715/203, 715/204, 715/205, 715/206, 715/207, 715/209, 715/210, 715/226, 715/228, 715/234, 715/253, 715/254, 715/255, 715/256, 715/273, 715/274, 715/700, 715/760, 717/100, 717/101, 717/103, 717/104, 717/106, 717/107, 717/108, 717/109, 717/110, 717/111, 717/113, 717/114, 717/116, 717/120, 717/121, 717/123, 717/159, 717/162, 717/165, 717/168, 717/170, 717/171, 717/172
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse

Abstract

Harvesting assets for packaged application practices, in one aspect, may include obtaining one or more work products associated with deployment of packaged software applications, extracting content and style, enhancing content and style with models of work products, and storing assets in asset repository.

Claims

1. A method for harvesting assets for packaged software application configuration, comprising:

obtaining one or more documents defining deployment procedures associated with deploying a packaged software application;

extracting content and style from the one or more documents, the content including one or more segmented elements of the one or more documents, the one or more segmented elements of the one or more documents include section, subsection, list or table, or combinations thereof, the style including one or more formats of the elements, the formats of the elements include font, color, texture, indentation, page layout, page number, footnote, header, image size, or spacing or combinations thereof;

creating one or more document objects corresponding to respective one or more elements of the extracted content and style, and populating the one or more document objects with the respective one or more elements of the extracted content and the extracted style;

storing the one or more document objects as assets in an asset repository;

enhancing the content in the one or more documents; and

cleansing the content and style according to one or more rules,

wherein the cleansing further includes merging duplicate content if a duplicate in the content is discover,

wherein the enhancing the content in the one or more documents includes adding information associated with identification of a process or user performing the cleansing, date, name of the process or the user, or project information, or combinations thereof, associated with the cleansing, and

wherein the storing the one or more document objects as assets in an asset repository further includes;

presenting to a user the one or more document objects with content, form, and metadata;

enabling the user to select an output type format;

generating the one or more document objects in the selected output type format; and

storing the generated one or more document objects in the selected output type format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the cleansing includes deleting information associated with specific identification of projects.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more documents include one or more of electronic text document or code, or combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the extracting step includes discovering the duplicate content.

5. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of harvesting assets for packaged software application configuration, comprising:

obtaining one or more documents defining deployment procedures associated with deploying a packaged software application;

extracting content and style from the one or more documents, the content including one or more segmented elements of the one or more documents, the one or more segmented elements of the one or more documents include section, subsection, list or table, or combinations thereof, the style including one or more formats of the elements, the one or more formats of the elements include font, color, texture, indentation, page layout, page number, footnote, header, image size, or spacing, or combinations thereof;

creating one or more document objects corresponding to respective one or more elements of the extracted content and style, and populating the one or more document objects with the respective one or more elements of the extracted content and the extracted style;

storing the one or more document objects as assets in an asset repository;

enhancing the content in the one or more documents; and

cleansing the content and style according to one or more rules,

wherein the cleansing further includes merging duplicate content if a duplicate in the content is discovered,

wherein the enhancing the content in the one or more documents includes adding information associated with identification of a process or user performing the cleansing, date, name of the process or the user, or project information, or combinations thereof, associated with the cleansing,

wherein the storing the one or more document objects as assets in an asset repository further includes;

presenting to a user the one or more document objects with content, form, and metadata;

enabling the user to select an output type format;

generating the one or more document objects in the selected output type format; and

storing the generated one or more document objects in the selected output type format.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the stored assets include annotations.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the cleansing includes deleting information associated with specific identifiers of a project.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5, the one or more documents include one or more of electronic text document or code, or combination thereof.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the extracting step includes discovering the duplicate content.

10. A system for harvesting assets for packaged software application configuration, comprising:

a processor;

a computer executable module configured to obtain one or more documents defining deployment procedures associated with deploying a packaged software application, the computer executable module further configured to extract content and style from the one or more documents, the content including one or more segmented elements of the one or more documents, the one or more segmented elements of the one or more documents include section, subsection, list and or table, or combinations thereof, the style including one or more formats of the elements, the one or more formats of the elements include font, color, texture, indentation, page layout, page number, footnote, header, image size, or spacing, or combinations thereof, and create one or more document objects corresponding to respective one or more elements of the extracted content and style, and populating the one or more document objects with the respective one or more elements of the extracted content and the extracted style;

a storage device configured to store the one or more document objects as assets in an asset repository,

wherein the computer executable module is further configured to merge duplicate content if a duplicate in the content is discovered,

wherein the computer executable module is further configured to enhance the content in the one or more documents and cleanse the extracted content and style according to one or more rules,

wherein the enhancing the content in the one or more documents includes adding information associated with identification of a process or user performing the cleansing, date, name of the process or the user, or project information, or combinations thereof, associated with the cleansing, and

wherein the computer executable module is further configured to present to a user the one or more document objects with content, form, and metadata, enable the user to select an output type format, generate the one or more document objects in the selected output type format, and store the generated one or more document objects in the selected output type format.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the stored one or more document object include annotations.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer executable module cleanses by deleting information associated specific identifications of projects.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more documents include one or more of electronic text document or code, or combination thereof.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer executable module further discovers the duplicate content.