System and method for providing supplemental functionalities to a computer program

A system for providing supplemental functionalities for an executable program, the system comprising:

• a computer system comprising one or more processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed, cause the computer system to:
• cause an executable program associated with an ontology to be run, wherein the ontology comprises information indicating attributes for a set of applications;
• obtain a domain-specific ontology on which the ontology has no dependency, wherein the domain-specific ontology is within a domain of interest;
• obtain an ontology instance of the ontology based on the domain-specific ontology, the ontology instance corresponding to an application of the set of applications that is within the domain of interest;
• use the ontology instance to generate application metadata for the executable program, wherein the application metadata defines one or more functionalities of an application that is within the domain of interest;
• and
• provide the application metadata as input to the executable program,
• wherein the providing of the application metadata causes the one or more functionalities of the application be made available via the executable program.

A method of providing supplemental functionalities to an executable program, the method being implemented by a computer system comprising one or more processors executing one or more computer program instructions that, when executed, perform the method, the method comprising:

• causing an executable program associated with an ontology to be run, wherein the ontology comprises information indicating attributes for a set of applications;
• obtaining a domain-specific ontology on which the ontology has no dependency, wherein the domain-specific ontology is within a domain of interest;
• using the ontology and the domain-specific ontology to generate supplemental information for the executable program, wherein the supplemental information defines one or more functionalities of an application of the set of applications that is within the domain of interest;
• and
• providing the supplemental information as input to the executable program's working memory at runtime of the executable program,
• wherein the providing of the supplemental information causes the one or more functionalities of the application be made available via the executable program at the runtime of the executable program without recompiling the executable program, and
• wherein the executable program obtains the supplemental information from the executable program's working memory at the runtime of the executable program to perform the one or more functionalities of the application.