US 11,443,345 B2Granted

Application modification using software services

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsVijay Ekambaram, Leigh Williamson, Roger Snook, Shinoj Zacharias

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Abstract

An approach for generating a modified software application by leveraging a customized advertisement between application owner and application vendor. The approach includes identifying a software application from a software application store repository and retrieving information from the software application store repository associated with the software application. The approach creates a requirement based on the retrieved information and identifying one or more vendor based on the requirement. After creating the targeted advertisement aimed at an application owner based on the identified vendor then the approach launches the advertisement campaign. The approach receives the notification from the application owner based on the advertisement to engage the identified vendor and modifies the software application based on the requirement.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for allowing an owner of a software application that is located in a software application store repository to implement missing features and/or correct defects associated with the software application, the computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying, by one or more computer processors, a software application from the software application store repository based on machine learning;
retrieving, by the one or more computer processors, information from the software application store repository associated with the software application;
creating, by the one or more computer processors, a requirement based on the retrieved information based on the machine learning, wherein the requirement comprises of building a desired feature and/or fixing one or more defects associated with the software application and identifying the one or more defects and/or the desired feature is based on web-crawling service on a plurality of web reviews left by customers;
identifying, by the one or more computer processors, one or more vendors based on the requirement based on the machine learning;
creating, by the one or more computer processors, the targeted advertisement aimed at an application owner based on the identified vendor from the one or more vendors based on the machine learning further comprises:
searching, by the one or more computer processors, for the one or more vendors based on the requirements;
creating, by the one or more computer processors, a bidding system requiring the one or more vendor to register and wherein the bidding system further comprises:
a multi-factor variable utilized by the bidding system to determine relationships consisting of P, A, R, T and S, wherein variable P corresponds to owner of the software application, variable A corresponds to the software application, variable R corresponds to future requirements of the software system, variable T corresponds to tools and/or services offered by the one or more vendor and S corresponds to the one or more vendors;
and
other factors that influence the bidding system comprises of cost, time, and complexity;
winning the bidding system by the identified vendor from the one or more vendors, wherein winning comprises of submitting the highest bid;
launching, by the one or more computer processors, an advertisement campaign based on the created target advertisement;
receiving, by the one or more computer processors, a notification from the application owner to provide at least one service associated with the identified vendor to meet the requirement of the software application;
modifying, by the one or more computer processors, the software application based on the requirement;
and
validating that the modifications to the software application has been successfully completed by web crawling a plurality of positive reviews as feedback from the customers.

13 more elements

A computer program product for allowing an owner of a software application that is located in a software application store repository to implement missing features and/or correct defects associated with the software application, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to identify a software application from the software application repository;
program instructions to retrieve information from the software application repository associated with the software application;
program instructions to create a requirement based on the retrieved information, wherein the requirements comprises of building a desired feature and/or fixing one or more defects associated with the software application and identifying the one or more defects and/or the desired feature is based on web-crawling service on a plurality of web reviews left by customers;
program instructions to identify one or more vendor based on the requirement;
program instructions to create the targeted advertisement aimed at an application owner based on the identified vendor from the one or more vendors further comprises:
program instructions to searching for the one or more vendors based on the requirements;
program instructions to creating a bidding system requiring the one or more vendor to register and wherein the bidding system further comprises:
a multi-factor variable utilized by the bidding system to determine relationships consisting of P, A, R, T and S, wherein variable P corresponds to owner of the software application, variable A corresponds to the software application, variable R corresponds to future requirements of the software system, variable T corresponds to tools and/or services offered by the one or more vendor and S corresponds to the one or more vendors;
and
other factors that influence the bidding system comprises of cost, time, and complexity;
program instructions to winning the bidding system by the identified vendor from the one or more vendors, wherein winning comprises of submitting the highest bid;
program instructions to launch an advertisement campaign based on the created target advertisement;
program instructions to receive a notification from the application owner to provide at least one service associated with the identified vendor to meet the requirement of the software application;
program instructions to modify the software application based on the requirement;
and
program instructions to validate that the modifications to the software application has been successfully completed by web crawling a plurality of positive reviews as feedback from the customers.

14 more elements

A computer system for allowing an owner of a software application, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;
one or more computer readable storage media;
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to identify a software application from the software application repository;
program instructions to retrieve information from the software application repository associated with the software application;
program instructions to create a requirement based on the retrieved information, wherein the requirements comprises of building a desired feature and/or fixing one or more defects associated with the software application and identifying the one or more defects and/or the desired feature is based on web-crawling service on a plurality of web reviews left by customers;
program instructions to identify one or more vendor based on the requirement;
program instructions to create the targeted advertisement aimed at an application owner based on the identified vendor from the one or more vendors further comprises:
program instructions to searching for the one or more vendors based on the requirements;
program instructions to creating a bidding system requiring the one or more vendor to register and wherein the bidding system further comprises:
a multi-factor variable utilized by the bidding system to determine relationships consisting of P, A, R, T and S, wherein variable P corresponds to owner of the software application, variable A corresponds to the software application, variable R corresponds to future requirements of the software system, variable T corresponds to tools and/or services offered by the one or more vendor and S corresponds to the one or more vendors;
and
other factors that influence the bidding system comprises of cost, time, and complexity;
program instructions to winning the bidding system by the identified vendor from the one or more vendors, wherein winning comprises of submitting the highest bid;
program instructions to launch an advertisement campaign based on the created target advertisement;
program instructions to receive a notification from the application owner to provide at least one service associated with the identified vendor to meet the requirement of the software application;
program instructions to modify the software application based on the requirement;
and
program instructions to validate that the modifications to the software application has been successfully completed by web crawling a plurality of positive reviews as feedback from the customers.

16 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/454,101Filed 27 Jun 2019
Published: US 2020/0410543 A131 Dec 2020
Granted: 13 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 30/0269
Targeted advertisements: based on user profile or attribute
G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
G06N 20/00
Machine learning
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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