System and method for determining computer system compatibility

A method for generating an indication of communication compatibility between a first computer system and one or more second computer systems that are connected to the first computer system via at least one network, the method comprising:

• receiving at least one declaration structured in accordance with a first implementation of a communication protocol from the first computer system over the at least one network;
• activating a model generator responsive to receiving the at least one declaration and generating an ontology model by the model generator that is representative of characteristics of the first implementation of the communication protocol used by the first computer system based on the at least one declaration;
• activating a query provider, generating at least one query by the query provider, and applying the at least one query against the ontology model that causes at least one query response to be provided, the at least one query response indicating one or more of resource representations or data structures of the first implementation of the communication protocol that are accepted by a second implementation of the communication protocol and another one or more of the resource representations or the data structures of the first implementation of the communication protocol that are not accepted by the second implementation of the communication protocol;
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• generating the indication of communication compatibility based on the at least one query response, the indication of communication compatibility including a set of incompatibility factors, based on the other one or more of the resource representations or the data structures of the first implementation that are not accepted, that represent one or more differences between the first implementation of the communication protocol and the second implementation of the communication protocol that prevent communication compatibility between the first computer system and the one or more second computer systems.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with program instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method for generating an indication of communication compatibility between a first computer system and one or more second computer systems that are connected to the first computer system via at least one network, the program instructions comprising:

• model generator logic that is activated responsive to receiving at least one declaration structured in accordance with a first implementation of a communication protocol from the first computer system over the at least one network and that generates an ontology model that is representative of characteristics of the first implementation of the communication protocol used by the first computer system based on the at least one declaration;
• query provider logic, that is activated responsive to generation of the ontology model, that generates at least one query and applies the at least one query against the ontology model that causes at least one query response to be provided, the at least one query response indicating one or more of resource representations or data structures of the first implementation of the communication protocol that are accepted a second implementation of the communication protocol and another one or more of the resource representations or the data structures of the first implementation of the communication protocol that are not accepted by the second implementation of the communication protocol;
• and compatibility logic to generate the indication of communication compatibility between the first computer system and the one or more second computer systems based on the at least one query response, the indication of communication compatibility including a set of incompatibility factors, based on the other one or more of the resource representations or the data structures of the first implementation that are not accepted, that represent one or more differences between the first implementation of the communication protocol and the second implementation of the communication protocol that prevent communication compatibility between the first computer system and the one or more second computer systems.