Artificial intelligence driven identification of application programming interface relationships

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12198050-B2
Application number	US-202117304407-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 21, 2021
Priority date	Jun 21, 2021
Publication date	Jan 14, 2025
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for identifying application programming interface relationships of a product. Entity information for the product is generated. The entity information identifies a plurality of entities of the product, attributes of the entities, and relationships between the entities. The plurality of entities include application programming interfaces of the product and other entities of the product. The entity information is processed by a graph attention network to identify degrees of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method of identifying application programming interface relationships of a product, comprising:
generating entity information for the product, wherein the entity information identifies a plurality of entities of the product, attributes of the entities, and relationships between the entities, wherein the plurality of entities comprise application programming interfaces of the product and other entities of the product; and
processing the entity information by a graph attention network to identify degrees of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the other entities of the product comprise entities selected from the group of entities consisting of functions of the product, users of the product, and business requirements of the product.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein generating the entity information for the product comprises automatically generating the entity information for the product using an entity builder tool selected from the group of tools consisting of a code scanner, a definition parser, and a natural language processing tool.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:
processing the entity information by the graph attention network comprises processing the entity information by the graph attention network to generate an application programming interface relationship network; and
generating correlation values from the application programming interface relationship network, wherein the correlation values indicate the degrees of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:
the degrees of relationships comprise a first degree of relationship between an application programming interface and a first entity of the product and a second degree of relationship between the first entity of the product and a second entity of the product; and
further comprising using the first degree of relationship and the second degree of relationship to identify a relationship between the application programming interface and the second entity of the product.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising training the graph attention network using a known relationship between an application programming interface and an entity of the product.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising using the degrees of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product to select test parameters for testing the product.

8. A system for identifying application programming interface relationships of a product, comprising:
an entity builder configured to generate entity information for the product, wherein the entity information identifies a plurality of entities of the product, attributes of the entities, and relationships between the entities, wherein the plurality of entities comprise application programming interfaces of the product and other entities of the product; and
a graph attention network configured to process the entity information to identify degrees of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the other entities of the product comprise entities selected from the group of entities consisting of functions of the product, users of the product, and business requirements of the product.

10. The system of claim 8 further comprising an entity builder tool configured to generate the entity information for the product automatically.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein:
the graph attention network is configured to process the entity information to generate an application programming interface relationship network; and
further comprising a relationship extractor configured to generate correlation values from the application programming interface relationship network, wherein the correlation values indicate the levels of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein:
the levels of relationships comprise a first level of relationship between an application programming interface and a first entity of the product and a second level of relationship between the first entity of the product and a second entity of the product; and
further comprising a relationship explorer configured to use the first level of relationship and the second level of relationship to identify a relationship between the application programming interface and the second entity of the product.

13. The system of claim 8 further comprising a trainer configured to train the graph attention network using a known relationship between an application programming interface and an entity of the product.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising a testing system configured to use the levels of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product to select test parameters for testing the product.

15. A computer program product for identifying application programming interface relationships of a product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to:
generate entity information for the product, wherein the entity information identifies a plurality of entities of the product, attributes of the entities, and relationships between the entities, wherein the plurality of entities comprise application programming interfaces of the product and other entities of the product; and
process the entity information by a graph attention network to identify degrees of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the other entities of the product comprise entities selected from the group of entities consisting of functions of the product, users of the product, and business requirements of the product.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the program instructions are executable by the device to cause the device to:
process the entity information by the graph attention network to generate an application programming interface relationship network; and
generate correlation values from the application programming interface relationship network, wherein the correlation values indicate the degrees of relationships between the application programming interfaces and the entities of the product.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein:
the degrees of relationships comprise a first degree of relationship between an application programming interface and a first entity of the product and a second degree of relationship between the first entity of the product and a second entity of the product; and
the program instructions are executable by the device to cause the device to use the first degree of relationship and the second degree of relationship to identify a relationship between the application programming interface and the second entity of the product.

19. The computer program product claim 15 , wherein the program instructions are executable by the device to cause the device to train the graph attention network using a known relationship

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Shan Wei
• Liu Wei Chuan
• Lv Na
• Quan Jing
• Qiu Hui
• Juan Gu

Classifications

• G06N3/0895

  Weakly supervised learning, e.g. semi-supervised or self-supervised learning · CPC title

• G06N3/09

  Supervised learning · CPC title

• G06F9/541

  via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications · CPC title

• G06N3/04

  Architecture, e.g. interconnection topology · CPC title

• G06N3/045

  Combinations of networks · CPC title