US 12,147,438 B2
API repository with searchable feature set
Sarika Sinha, Bangalore (IN); Siddharth Saraya, New Delhi (IN); and Pradeep Kumar Rathi, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Jan. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/092,360.
Prior Publication US 2024/0220507 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/24578 (2019.01) [G06F 9/54 (2013.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a network interface configured to receive, via a user interface of a search engine, search criteria including a feature set; and
a processor configured to:
query a repository of application programming interfaces (APIs) to identify an API in the repository that matches the feature set based on a comparison of a description of features in the feature set to a description of functions performed by the API which have been published to the repository;
identify a name of the API and attributes of the API which have been published to the repository; and
display the name of the API and the attributes of the API as search results of the search engine via the user interface.