User augmented reverse engineering
US8954925B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 18, 2010 |
| Grant date | Feb 10, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 11, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/74
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Disclosed herein is user augmented reverse engineering, where, in one embodiment, during the generation of a graphical representation of a codebase, database, binary and the like, users may be provided with an option to ‘focus’. For example, during the graphical generation of a large codebase, a user may select one or things to limit the extent of the graphical representation generation. In another embodiment, a graphical generation may encounter one or more pre-defined boundary conditions. Upon encountering a boundary condition, the generation of the graphical representation may determine that it is unable to complete the graphical generation within a pre-defined set of requirements without additional instructions. Thus, the graphical generation may complete and then prompt a user for solutions to any boundary conditions it has encountered, or the generation may pause at each boundary condition it encounters and prompt a user for a solution to the boundary condition.
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