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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2019
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45545 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 16/90344 (2019.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for discovering applications based on file system directories are disclosed. In one example, process information may be extracted from a file system directory of an application host executing a plurality of applications. Further, an expression match may be performed on the process information. Furthermore, a presence of an application running on the application host may be determined based on an outcome of the expression match.