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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2004
Stephen A. Byrd, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Czerwinski, Berkeley, CA (US);
J. Kristofer Fox, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Bruce Light Hillsberg, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bernhard Julius Klingenberg, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Rajesh Francisco Krishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Balaji Thirumalai, Newark, CA (US);
Stephen A. Byrd, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Czerwinski, Berkeley, CA (US);
J. Kristofer Fox, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Bruce Light Hillsberg, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bernhard Julius Klingenberg, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Rajesh Francisco Krishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Balaji Thirumalai, Newark, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are provided for automatically discovering and grouping files and other resources used by a business process. The present invention includes a monitoring module that collects trace data representative of operational behavior of software applications. An analysis module analyzes the trace data to discover resources affiliated with the business process. A determination module defines a logical application corresponding to the business process and includes the resources discovered by the analysis module. The logical application is automatically defined such that business policies may be readily implemented on the logical application as a whole. Manual identification of resources for a business process is eliminated or substantially reduced.