Mashup infrastructure with learning mechanism

A computer-accessible, non-transitory, storage medium encoded with computer-readable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to:

• receive a request to identify a set of potential ports to connect to a first port;
• store metadata containing attribute tags and connection data;
• identify the set of potential ports, the identification of the set of potential ports based upon the stored metadata and including:
• determining whether metadata attribute tags are associated with the first port;
• determining whether metadata attribute tags are associated with at least one potential port of the set of potential ports;
• determining that the connection data identifies at least one previous connection associated with at least one of the first port or the at least one potential port;
• and
• performing a relevance ranking of the determined at least one previous connection to the determination of the set of potential ports using a weighting algorithm applied against at least one relevance factor, each relevance factor associated with at least one weight value reflecting a utility of connection attributes for different connection scenarios;
• and
• present a suggestion of potential ports to connect to the first port, the suggestion including at least a subset of potential ports selected from the identified set of potential ports.

A system, comprising:

• memory operable to store metadata;
• and
• at least one hardware processor interoperably coupled to the memory and configured to:
• receive a request to identify a set of potential ports to connect to a first port;
• store metadata containing attribute tags and connection data;
• identify the set of potential ports, the identification of the set of potential ports based upon the stored metadata and including:
• determining whether metadata attribute tags are associated with the first port;
• determining whether metadata attribute tags are associated with at least one potential port of the set of potential ports;
• determining that the connection data identifies at least one previous connection associated with at least one of the first port or the at least one potential port;
• and
• performing a relevance ranking of the determined at least one previous connection to the determination of the set of potential ports using a weighting algorithm applied against at least one relevance factor, each relevance factor associated with at least one weight value reflecting a utility of connection attributes for different connection scenarios;
• and
• present a suggestion of potential ports to connect to the first port, the suggestion including at least a subset of potential ports selected from the identified set of potential ports.