Construction and analysis of markup language document representing computing architecture having computing elements

US8271458B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Bernhard J. Klingenberg · Grover Beach, US
• Steven J. Davis · Hermosa Beach, US
• David G. Van Hise · Tucson, US
• James E. Gruener · Topsfield, US
• Alisa Neeman · Santa Cruz, US
• Emil R. Nunez · Pembroke Pines, US
• Nathan L. Williams · Boston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 6, 2011
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 6, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F40/143
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A markup language document representing computing elements of a computing architecture, such as data storage elements of a data storage architecture, is constructed and analyzed. A first computing element contained by a second computing element is represented; a first tag of the document corresponding to the first computing element is nested within a second tag of the markup language document corresponding to the second computing element. A non-containing/contained relationship from the first computing element to a third computing element is also represented; a pointer tag of the document corresponding to the data access path is nested within the first tag, and references a third tag of the document corresponding to the third computing element. Get-pointer-node and get-child-node application programming interfaces for the markup language are called to traverse among containing/contained relationships. Pointer tags are followed to traverse among non-containing/contained relationships. Redundant attributes among the relationships can thus be detected.