US 7,568,109 B2
System for software source code comparison
G. Edward Powell, Jr., Brentwood, Tenn. (US); Michael Anderer, Salt Lake City, Utah (US); Mark T. Lane, Franklin, Tenn. (US); and N. Edward White, Austin, Tex. (US)
Assigned to IPX, Inc., Brentwood, Tenn. (US)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/938,844.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/502098, filed on Sep. 11, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0216898 A1, Sep. 29, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 21/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 713—187  [726/32; 713/189] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for comparing at least a first corpus to a second corpus, comprising:
an analyzer identifying concepts in the corpuses, said analyzer determining a frequency rating of each of said concepts in each corpus;
for each corpus, replacing each instance of each of said concepts with its respective determined frequency rating to create a frequency file; and
a comparator comparing the frequency file for the first corpus to the frequency file for the second corpus,
wherein said comparing the frequency file for the first corpus to the frequency file for the second corpus further comprises comparing portions of one corpus against the other corpus.