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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2008
Luca Di Litta, Rome, IT;
Scot Maclellan, Rome, IT;
Luigi Pichetti, Rome, IT;
Marco Secchi, Rome, IT;
Antonio Secomandi, Brugherio Milan, IT;
Luca Di Litta, Rome, IT;
Scot MacLellan, Rome, IT;
Luigi Pichetti, Rome, IT;
Marco Secchi, Rome, IT;
Antonio Secomandi, Brugherio Milan, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for populating a software catalogue in software applications which monitor the presence of software products on a plurality of computers. The proposed method aims at populating a software catalogue with a limited manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base (the catalogue) which contains definitions of software products and the related signature. Information about software products and their related signature is obtained through a process using some special files (e.g. XML files) which contains information and/or pointers to other products.