Patent Document ID: 8266585
Application ID: 12097353

Base Claim:
1. In a software development system, a method for assisting a user in creating source code for a computer program in a high-level programming language, the method comprising: at a current user inputting location within a piece of said source code under development, detecting a need for assisting the user with input for the creation of the piece of source code; determining fitting source code elements suitable for input at said current inputting location; and providing to the user said list of fitting source code elements, wherein said determining the fitting source code elements includes determining for each fitting source code element a respective fitting probability of the source code element in the current inputting location, and wherein said providing to the user said list of fitting source code elements includes associating to each fitting source code element in the list an indication of the respective fitting probability, wherein said fitting probabilities include probabilities of software methods of a software class being invoked after other methods of the same software class.

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Claim 3:
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said fitting probability is determined based on a statistical analysis of previously created pieces of source code.