System for software source code comparison

Overview

Information

Number
8086869
Application
12/458212
Filing date
07/02/2009
Issue date
12/27/2011
Inventor(s)
G. Edward Powell, Jr., Michael Anderer, Mark T. Lane, N. Edward White
US Classification
713/187; 726/32
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Citations

Syracuse University (1)
UNISYS (1)
IP.COM I, (1)

Abstract

A system for analyzing similarities between a first and second corpus or between a set of concepts and a corpus uses natural language processing and machine intelligence methods to replace terms or phrases in the corpus with concepts, determine the frequency of each concept in the corpus, and convert the corpus into a concept frequency file to enable easy comparison of the two corpuses or easy retrieval of items from the corpus that contain concept. Difference analysis and a combination of content and spectral analysis may be employed.

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Tech Analysis

Class Subclass Type Reference Factor Citation Factor Strength Grant time Early grant (%)
713 187 Emerging Average Average Medium Average 33.9
726 32 Emerging Novel Average Medium High Average 32.4