A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POPULATING A SOFTWARE CATALOGUE WITH RELATED PRODUCT INFORMATION
摘要
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.
申请公布号
EP2130164(A1)
申请公布日期
2009.12.09
申请号
EP20080709276
申请日期
2008.03.04
申请人
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
发明人
MACLELLAN, SCOT;SECOMANDI, ANTONIO;DI LITTA, LUCA;PICHETTI, LUIGI;SECCHI, MARCO