Patent ID: 8429673
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of accessing information from one or more software components comprising: storing first information that describes a first software component; associating the first information with the first software component; storing reference information that specifies the address of second information associated with a second software component, wherein the second information describes the second software component; associating the reference information with the first software component; and sending the first information and the reference information to a third software component, wherein the first software component provides one or more inputs to the third software component and the third software component consumes the first software component, and the first software component receives one or more inputs from the second software component and the first software component consumes the second software component, and wherein the third software component sends third information to the first software component for processing, and wherein the first software component and at least the second software component perform distributed computing of said third information, and wherein the third software component audits software components performing said distributed computing by sending a first request to the first software component, and in accordance therewith, the third software component receives the first information and the reference information and uses the reference information to iteratively retrieve information describing downstream software components including said second information describing the second software component.