MINING DEPENDENCIES FROM DISK IMAGES

Patent №

US 9,727,344

Granted

2017-08-08

Filed 2012

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

2

kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13595860

Methods and arrangements for automatically finding the dependency of a software product on other software products or components. From an install image or directory, a signature is found by deriving the same from a directory structure of the software. Further, a directory tree structure is built and an approximate sub-tree matching algorithm is applied to find commonalities across software products.

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Knowledge representation0.93
Machine learning0.08
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 428770267

Assignors

ANANTHANARAYANAN, REMA, CHATURVEDI, VINATHA, CHENTHAMARAKSHAN, VIJIL E., DESHPANDE, PRASAD M., KRISHNAPURAM, RAGHURAM, MOHAMMED, SHAJEER K.

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