Internet-Based Enterprise Innovation Through a Community-Based API Builder to Manage APIs

More and more users, these days, keep fragmented data across the web in different applications, through various types of devices, PC, mobiles, wearable devices, etc. By taking advantage of an aggregative Graph Application Programming Interface (API), users have the ability to harness shattered data and keep them into a privacy-aware platform (Cloudlet) where permissions can be applied, and therefore let developers build useful applications from it. To make this unifying Graph API, the API Builder is proposed, as a tool for easily creating new APIs and connecting them with existing ones from Cloud-based Services (CBS), thus providing integration among services and making it easier for users and/or enterprises to reach a larger audience while conveying their message. Typical obstacles, like keeping up to date with CBS API versioning, that seems daunting for developers, are also tackled through semi-automation and the help of the community empowering the API Builder. In that way, application developers do not have to worry for merging various APIs or if the application-generated data are locked in silos of companies; now the user is the judge who gives access to their data and meta-data (i.e. especially context), to enable smarter, context-adaptive and richer in content applications.