Patent Issued for System and methods for application programming interface validation and testing (USPTO 11050850)

2021 JUL 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Allstate Insurance Company (Northbrook, Illinois, United States) has been issued patent number 11050850, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors.

The patent’s inventors are Chhabria, Reeta (Arlington Heights, IL, US), Puranik, Shruti (Palatine, IL, US), Verdhan, Sidhi (Northbrook, IL, US).

This patent was filed on January 7, 2019 and was published online on June 29, 2021.

From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: “An application programming interface (API) connects a computer program to a programming library. Moore’s law predicted that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years while the chip’s price would remain constant. “Moore’s law” meant consumers could buy the same technology two years later for about the same price. Fifty years later, Moore’s law prediction has endured to the idea that technology companies have recognized Moore’s law as a benchmark they must meet, or fall behind in the market. Patrons have come to expect technological products to be faster, cheaper, and more compact over time. This expectation seems to have driven trends of rapid growth in computing power, smaller devices, the ability to connect to the Internet, and reduction in cost and big data. There is a need to improve the technological processing in the new computing era including APIs.”

Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “The following presents a simplified summary in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the disclosure. The summary is not an extensive overview of the disclosure. It is neither intended to identify key or critical elements of the disclosure nor to delineate the scope of the disclosure. The following summary merely presents some concepts of the disclosure in a simplified form as a prelude to the description below.

“Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, computer-readable media, systems, and apparatuses for receiving data. In one aspect, an electronic computer implemented method of application programming interface testing and validation is provided. The method includes, via a computer-based network, receiving a plurality of executable code requests for a first plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated on a first network protocol and a second plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated on a second network protocol. In the method each of the executable code requests are associated with a baseline attribute data value. Further, the method includes electronically receiving a plurality of payload response attribute data values associated with each executable request and electronically parsing the payload response attribute values with a Parser component. The method includes electronically processing the parsed payload response attribute values with a Comparator component and mapping to each of the code requests associated with the baseline attribute value to generate a virtual hash map of key pairs.

“These and other features and advantages of the disclosure will be apparent from the additional description provided herein.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. An electronic computer implemented method of application programming interface (API) testing and validation, comprising: via a computer-based network, receiving a plurality of executable code requests for a first plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a first network protocol and a second plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a second network protocol, each of the executable code requests being associated with a baseline attribute data value; electronically receiving a plurality of payload response attribute data values associated with each executable code request; electronically parsing the plurality of payload response attribute data values; electronically generating a first virtual hash map comprising a mapping between each of the plurality of payload response attribute data values and each of the plurality of executable code requests; and comparing the first virtual hash map to a second virtual hash map.

“2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first network protocol is associated with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the second network protocol is associated with Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol.

“3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first network protocol is associated with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the second network protocol is associated with SOAP.

“4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first network protocol is associated with Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol and the second network protocol is associated with REST.

“5. The method of claim 1, wherein the executable code requests comprises a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) request.

“6. The method of claim 5, further comprising a step of processing the JSON requests in a script code repository server.

“7. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the first virtual hash map is performed by an automation execution server.

“8. The method of claim 7, further comprising: electronically storing the first virtual hash map.

“9. One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method of application programming interface (API) testing and validation, comprising: via a computer-based network, receiving a plurality of executable code requests for a first plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a first network protocol and a second plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a second network protocol; each of the executable code requests being associated with a baseline attribute data value; electronically receiving a plurality of payload response attribute data values associated with each executable code request; electronically parsing the payload response attribute data values; electronically generating a first virtual hash map comprising a mapping between each of the plurality of payload response attribute data values and each of the plurality of executable code requests; and comparing the first virtual hash map to a second virtual hash map.

“10. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 9, wherein the first network protocol is associated with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the second network protocol is associated with Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol.

“11. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 9, wherein the first network protocol is associated with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the second network protocol is associated with SOAP.

“12. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 9, wherein the first network protocol is associated with Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol and the second network protocol is associated with REST.

“13. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 9, wherein the executable code request comprises a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) request.

“14. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 13, further comprising processing the JSON requests in a script code repository server.

“15. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 9, wherein the generating the first virtual hash map is performed by an automation execution server.

“16. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 15, storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to electronically store the first virtual hash map.

“17. An apparatus comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to: receive a plurality of executable code requests for a first plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a first network protocol and a second plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a second network protocol; electronically receive a plurality of payload response attribute data values associated with each executable code request; electronically parse the plurality of payload response attribute data values; and electronically generate a first virtual hash map comprising a mapping between each of the plurality of payload response attribute data values and each of the plurality of executable code requests; and compare the first virtual hash map to a second virtual hash map.

“18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the first network protocol is associated with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the second network protocol is associated with Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol.

“19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the executable code request comprises a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) request.

“20. The apparatus of claim 19, further comprising processing the JSON requests in a script code repository server.”

For the URL and additional information on this patent, see: Chhabria, Reeta. System and methods for application programming interface validation and testing. U.S. Patent Number 11050850, filed January 7, 2019, and published online on June 29, 2021. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=11050850.PN.&OS=PN/11050850RS=PN/11050850

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