Patent ID: 9390178
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented method pertaining to Web application programming interface (API) data which is associated with a Web API ecosystem, the computer implemented method comprising: collecting data for a data structure that pertains to Web API related events, wherein the Web API related events selectively include at least registration of a Web API user, provision of a Web API, and invocation of a Web API, and further selectively include relationships between a Web API and a Web API user, between different Web API users, and between different Web APIs; constructing the data structure that is selectively related to at least some of the Web API data associated with the Web API ecosystem; commencing an analytics operation to determine specified information which is of interest to a given Web API user, wherein the given Web API user has a role that pertains to the Web API ecosystem; responsive to commencing the analytics operation, using Web API data related to the data structure to determine one or more preliminary data elements, wherein at least one of the preliminary data elements comprises an answer to a specified preliminary query; and selectively using respective preliminary data elements to determine the specified information.