Patent ID: 9396046
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for capturing information for a data structure, wherein the information selectively pertains to Web application programming interfaces (APIs) and to users of Web APIs, the method comprising: identifying a first set of relationships, wherein an identified relationship can be at least a relationship between a Web API and a Web API user, a relationship between different Web API users, or a relationship between different Web APIs; furnishing the first set of relationships to the data structure as first captured information, wherein the data structure comprises a Web API graph having nodes and edges, and wherein an edge comprises a relationship between two nodes, and wherein a dataset comprising properties of respective nodes and edges is selectively represented in a specified property graph that represents data in a different form than a form of data representation in the Web API graph; using the first captured information to perform a specified analysis operation; and prior to or during performance of the specified analysis operation, adding second information to the data structure, wherein the added second information includes at least one of a user, a Web API, or a relationship that is not included in the first captured information, and the added second information does not affect performance of the specified analysis operation.