US 11,650,813 B2Granted

Enhanced product development efficiency, communication, and/or security through component-based event generation and/or subscription

AssigneeMethodics, Inc.

InventorsVishal Moondhra, Fergus Slorach

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Abstract

Disclosed is a method, a device, a system and/or a manufacture of secure and efficient product development through subscription to an event associated with a restricted design dependency tree. In one embodiment, a method for secure development of design data includes receiving a request for retrieval of a root version of a dependency tree. A dependency reference from the root version is followed to a version of a sub-component. The version of the sub-component is determined to have a positive authorization status for read access through a database association with a unique identifier of a user and/or a group profile. A restricted tree data comprising the unique identifier of the root version and the version of the sub-component is returned. The user and/or the group profile is then subscribed to receive a message on a client device generated in response to an event associated with the restricted design dependency tree.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for generating events associated with software and computing hardware design data, the system comprising:

a coordination server comprising:
an authentication module comprising computer readable instructions that when executed authenticate at least one of a first user and a client device of the first user;
a design server comprising a dependency database stored in a computer memory comprising a set of nodes of a directed acyclic graph and a set of dependency references of the set of nodes as directed edges of the directed acyclic graph,
wherein a node of the set of nodes stores data of at least one of a component, a variant of the component, and a version of the component;
a security server comprising:
computer readable instructions that when executed determine the first user is authorized to view at least one of the component, the variant of the component, and the version of the component, and
a database association stored as data, the database association drawn between (i) at least one of a unique identifier of the first user and a unique identifier of a group profile associated with the unique identifier of the first user, and (ii) at least one of a unique identifier of the component, a unique identifier of the variant of the component, and a unique identifier of the version of the component;
a subscription server comprising computer readable instructions that when executed:
determine occurrence of an event associated with a sub-component of the component, a variant of the sub-component, and a version of the sub-component,
wherein the database association useable to subscribe the first user to events of at least one of the component, the variant of the component, the version of the component, and
generate a message describing the event for transmission to the client device of the first user;
and
a network communicatively coupling the coordination server, the design server, the security server, and the subscription server.

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A method for component-centric event-based design security, the method comprising:

auth;
authenticating at least one of a first user and a client device of the first user;
receiving a subscription request to subscribe to events of at least one of a component, a variant of the component, and a version of the component,
wherein the subscription request comprising a unique identifier of the first user generating the subscription request and at least one of the unique identifier of the component, the unique identifier of the variant of the component, and the unique identifier of the version of the component;
determining the first user is authorized to access the version of the component;
subscribing the first user to receive a message describing an event associated with at least one of the component, the variant of the component, and the version of the component;
receiving from a device of a second user a request to assemble a design dependency tree comprising the version of the component, the request to assemble the design dependency tree comprising at least one of the unique identifier of the version of the component and a unique identifier of a version of a different component acting as a root node of the design dependency tree;
determining the second user is not authorized to access the version of the component;
generating a security vulnerability notification describing a security vulnerability in at least one of the component, the variant of the component, and the version of the component;
and
transmitting the security vulnerability notification to the device of the first user.

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A method for event-driven structuring of at least one of software and computing hardware design data, the method comprising:

storing a node of a directed acyclic graph in a computer memory,
wherein the node storing data of at least one of a component, a variant of the component, and a version of the component,
wherein, the directed acyclic graph comprising a set of nodes and a set of dependency references of the set of nodes as directed edges of the directed acyclic graph;
authenticating at least one of a first user and a client device of the first user;
determining the first user is authorized to view at least one of the component, the variant of the component, and the version of the component;
storing a database association between (i) at least one of a unique identifier of the first user and a unique identifier of a group profile associated with the unique identifier of the first user, and (ii) at least one of a unique identifier of the component, a unique identifier of the variant of the component, and a unique identifier of the version of the component, to subscribe the first user to an event of at least one of the component, the variant of the component, and the version of the component;
determining occurrence of the event associated with a sub-component of the component, a variant of the sub-component, and a version of the sub-component;
and
generating a message describing the event for transmission to the client device of the first user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/524,704Filed 11 Nov 2021 · continuation
Priority: 6 May 2018
Published: US 2022/0075618 A110 Mar 2022
Granted: 16 May 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 8/71
Software maintenance or management: version control ; Configuration management
G06F 8/433
Checking; Contextual analysis: dependency analysis; Data or control flow analysis
G06F 16/9027
Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures: trees
G06F 16/903
Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types: querying

Family

Application62/667,546Us provisional application · filed 6 May 2018
Application16/403,571Parent of this continuation · filed 5 May 2019
US 10,782,962 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Nov 2019
Application16/995,711Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Aug 2020
US 2022/0075618 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Mar 2022
US 11,200,050 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0339966 A1Published application
US 2020/0379753 A1Published application
US 11,650,813 B2This patent

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