International Business Machines Corporation

Grzegorz Poniewozik

Michal S Paluch

Piotr Kania

Pawel Slowikowski

Tomasz L Prudzic

Patryk M Walawender

Slawomir T Mezyk

Monika Grabska

An exclusion database is maintained for software discovery scans where directories within a file system are excluded according to discovered software artifacts, scan time parameters, and pre-defined exclusion definitions associated with software applications. A file system tree having directory-specific attributes for causing software discovery scans to limit scanning within the file system.

Software discovery using exclusion

One or more processors determine that one or more memory locations in a client computing device contain one or more software artifacts that provide a match to a first software signature. One or more processors send instructions not to scan the one or more memory locations against a second software signature.

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Grzegorz Poniewozik