US 2009/0265451 A1 · ASSISTED APPLICATION DEFINITION

Abstract

A system and a method for characterizing an application the method including one or more of monitoring installation of an application and recording information relating to one or more file system, registry and database resources created or modified during installation of the application, monitoring an application run and recording information relating to one or more file system, registry, database and network resources accessed during run of the application and manually entering information relating to one or more file system, registry, database and network resources employed by the application and filtering the information to provide filtered information and classifying the filtered information to obtain classified information.

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Dependent claims

A method for characterizing an application comprising:

at least one of:
monitoring installation of an application and recording information relating to at least one of file system, registry and database resources created or modified during installation of said application;
monitoring an application run and recording information relating to at least one of file system, registry, database and network resources accessed during run of said application;
and
manually entering information relating to at least one of file system, registry, database and network resources employed by said application;
and
filtering said information to provide filtered information and classifying said filtered information to obtain classified information.

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A system for characterizing an application comprising:

at least one of:
application installation monitoring functionality operative to monitor installation of an application and record information relating to at least one of file system, registry and database resources created or modified during installation of said application;
application run monitoring functionality operative to monitor an application run and record information relating to at least one of file system, registry, database and network resources accessed during run of said application;
and
manual information input functionality operative to enable manual entering of information relating to at least file system, registry, database and network resources employed by said application;
and
information filtering functionality operative to provide filtered information;
and classification functionality operative to classify said filtered information into at least one group based on at least one of criticality and significance.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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