Component Analysis Visualization Module for Software Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
As software applications become increasingly complex, managing and maintaining them effectively is challenging due to the complexity of their elements, interdependencies, and the need for comprehensive analysis and monitoring to ensure security, performance, and compliance with regulations.
Innovation Solution
A Component Analysis and Visualization (CCAV) module is integrated into website building systems to analyze and visualize application elements, generate system architecture diagrams, and provide tools for validation, anomaly detection, and permission management, enabling users to understand and optimize application performance and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If website building systems support increasingly complex software applications with more elements and interdependencies, then functionality and versatility improve, but device complexity and difficulty of managing elements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments complex software applications into individual analyzable elements including pages, components, containers, assets, and configuration data. The component analysis module breaks down the application hierarchy into discrete units that can be separately analyzed, visualized, and managed, making complexity tractable while preserving full functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary modules including a component analysis module, visualization module, and validation module that act as mediators between the complex application elements and the user. These intermediaries process, organize, and present information in manageable forms, reducing the perceived complexity while maintaining access to all application features.
2Reliability
If comprehensive analysis and monitoring of application elements are implemented to ensure security and performance, then reliability improves, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis and validation actions before deployment and during operation. The component analysis module pre-analyzes application elements to identify security issues, performance bottlenecks, and compliance problems before they affect reliability. Validation rules are pre-defined and automatically applied, ensuring security and performance without adding operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual security monitoring and performance analysis with automated computational modules. The system uses algorithmic analysis, validation rules, and automated monitoring mechanisms instead of manual processes, achieving comprehensive security and performance assurance while managing complexity through automation rather than human effort.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive analysis and monitoring of application elements are implemented to ensure performance and compliance, then measurement precision improves, but loss of time and processing overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies validation rules and analysis at appropriate levels of detail rather than uniformly across all elements. The component analysis module identifies and focuses on critical elements requiring precise measurement while using lighter analysis for less critical components. This partial action approach maintains measurement precision where needed while reducing overall processing time and avoiding excessive analysis overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent dynamically adjusts analysis parameters and depth based on element type, criticality, and context. The system changes analysis intensity, validation strictness, and monitoring frequency according to specific parameters of each application element, achieving high measurement precision for critical components while reducing time loss for less important elements through parameter-driven adaptive analysis.
4Reliability
If tools for validation, anomaly detection, and permission management are integrated, then reliability and security improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges validation, anomaly detection, permission management, and component analysis into an integrated system architecture. These previously separate functions are combined into a unified platform where the component analysis module serves as a central hub that coordinates all compliance and security tools, reducing overall system complexity through integration while maintaining comprehensive reliability and security coverage.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for a website building system (WBS) includes a component analysis and visualization (CCAV) module to analyze elements of an underlying application built using the WBS and to generate a visual system architecture diagram (SAD) representing the hierarchical arrangement of the elements. The CCAV module includes a site object build engine to gather and analyze information on the elements and to create a site object representation, a software bill of materials builder to create a software bill of materials from the site object consisting at least of assets and configuration data for the underlying application and a SAD renderer to create and display the SAD where the SAD includes a static application architecture diagram representing the at least assets and configuration data and an aggregated application architecture diagram showing an overlay of at least one of: software, hardware usage, and business data changes affecting the underlying application.