US 8,412,813 B2Granted

Customizable asset governance for a distributed reusable software library

AssigneeLogicLibrary, Inc.

InventorsBrent A. Carlson, Timothy J. Graser

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Abstract

In general, techniques are described that facilitate the reuse of software assets within an enterprise. A system, for example, is described that includes a repository to store artifacts, and an asset source to generate a software asset based on the artifacts. The system further includes an asset management system to receive the software asset from the asset source and store the software asset within an asset library. The system may further include a model having one or more elements, and an asset retrieval module to selectively retrieve a subset of the software assets from the asset library based on input from a user identifying one or more of the elements. The system may also include a subsystem that allows users to customize asset governance processes and tailor system behavior through an event-driven mechanism.

Claims46

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented system comprising:

one or more computers;
a set of repositories configured to store electronic artifacts, at least one or more of the artifacts comprising software instructions;
a set of asset sources executing on the one or more computers, the set of asset sources being configured to monitor the repositories and to generate software assets in a normalized format upon detecting new or changed artifacts in the repositories, each of the software assets representing a set of related artifacts in the repositories that is reusable in different software development environments;
and
an asset management system executing on the one or more computers, the asset management system being configured to capture the software assets from the asset sources, to store the software assets in an asset library, and to operate in accordance with a control process when the asset management system captures the software assets generated by the asset sources and stores the software assets, the control process being customizable by an administrator of the asset management system, the asset management system comprising:
a library process control (LPC) document that defines the control process, and
a control unit that processes the LPC document and performs the control process based on the content of the LPC document.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/436,102Filed 17 May 2006 · continuation in part
Priority: 18 Mar 2002
Published: US 2006/0265688 A123 Nov 2006
Granted: 2 Apr 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification2 codes

G06F 8/36
Creation or generation of source code: software reuse
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application10/100,749Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 18 Mar 2002
Application10/109,601Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 26 Mar 2002
Application60/682,937Us provisional application · filed 20 May 2005
US 2006/0265688 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Nov 2006
US 2010/0306730 A9Pre-grant publication · published 2 Dec 2010
US 7,149,734 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 7,322,024 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2003/0046282 A1Published application
US 2003/0182470 A1Published application
US 8,412,813 B2This patent

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