Discovery directives

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2011-05-31

2011-05-31

Alam, Hosain T (Department: 2166)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Miscellaneous

Reexamination Certificate

active

07953776

ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for configuring and scheduling logical discovery processes in a data processing system is provided. A discovery engine communicates with information providers to collect discovery data. An information provider is a software component whose responsibility is to discover resources and relationships between the resources and write their representations in a persistent store. Discovery directives are used to coordinate the execution of information providers.

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