Development Component Storefront for Enterprise Repository Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in finding, understanding, and reusing development components due to their dispersion across different repositories, complexity, and lack of effective access mechanisms, which hinders the creation of new solutions and maximization of business advantage from mission-critical knowledge.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for presenting and utilizing development components through a storefront or interface that allows users to access, update metadata, and easily find and reuse components, featuring a component manager that aggregates and manages development components, provides context-based content, and facilitates user interaction, sharing, and customization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If development components are stored in multiple different repositories, then the components can be organized by type and technology, but it becomes difficult for users to find and access components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple component repositories into a single unified portal that provides centralized access to all development components. The portal aggregates components from various sources and presents them through a common interface, eliminating the need for users to navigate multiple separate repositories while maintaining the organizational structure of each component type.
Solution Approach 2:
The portal acts as an intermediary layer between users and the underlying component repositories. It provides a unified search and access interface that translates user requests into appropriate component retrievals from the underlying distributed repositories, hiding the complexity of multiple storage locations from users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If development components are made available across multiple repositories, then component variety increases, but understanding and reusing components becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex information about development components into distinct, manageable categories including metadata, documentation, usage examples, and technical specifications. Each component is presented with its essential information separated and organized, allowing users to understand and evaluate components without being overwhelmed by all available information simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The portal provides universal access mechanisms that work across all component types and repositories. It implements standardized search, filtering, and access patterns that function consistently regardless of the underlying component source, reducing the cognitive load required to understand and navigate different component repositories.
3Ease of operation
If a simple enterprise portal is used to access information, then access is simplified, but the portal cannot effectively manage complex heterogeneous systems
Solution Approach 1:
The portal implements dynamic capabilities that allow it to adapt to different component types and organizational structures while maintaining a consistent user interface. It dynamically adjusts its behavior based on the type of component being accessed, the user's permissions, and the underlying repository structure, enabling simple access to complex systems through intelligent adaptation rather than complexity in the interface.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and software for utilizing development components or other enterprise content—whether developed internally or by third parties—are described herein. One method for utilizing reusable development components includes presenting an interface to a remote user operable to display information for at least a first and a second development component. In some cases, the first development component is a first type of enterprise application content and the second development component of a second type of enterprise application content. The user is then allowed to update some portion of metadata associated with the first development component.