Discovery, maintenance, and representation of entities in a managed system environment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7720950
APP PUB NO 20070005544A1
SERIAL NO

11142573

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Discovery, maintenance, and representation of entities in a managed system environment are described. Apparatus described herein includes one or more agents that run on respective serves that are managed within a management system, and that generate discovery data in response to a discovery rule. The apparatus also includes a management server that is adapted to transmit the discovery rules for execution by the agent, and to receive the discovery data from the agent. Methods described herein include defining the rules for discovering data about an entity on the server, and receiving the discovery data in response to the rule being executed in an environment in which the entity is deployed. Several types of user interfaces for presenting the discovery data are also disclosed.

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MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLCONE MICROSOFT WAY REDMOND WA 98052

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Eddy, Brett Poulsbo, US 3 14
Ersan, Murat Bellevue, US 4 149
Findik, Ferit Sammamish, US 10 161
Jayasimha, Varsha Redmond, US 6 186
Joanovic, Vlad Oakville, CA 2 36
Voloshin, Vitaly Issaquah, US 25 731

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