Patent №
US 9,400,992
Granted
2016-07-26
Filed 2008
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
+1 more
Lab
AI components
2
kr · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12062093
A method and system for populating a software catalogue in software applications which monitor the presence of software products on a plurality of computers. The proposed method aims at populating a software catalogue with a limited manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base (the catalogue) which contains definitions of software products and the related signature. Information about software products and their related signature is obtained through a process using some special files (e.g. XML files) which contains information and/or pointers to other products.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 207510608
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
assignment · 211340034
Assignors
DI LITTA, LUCA, MACLELLAN, SCOT, PICHETTI, LUIGI, SECCHI, MARCO, SECOMANDI, ANTONIO
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.