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Patent Inventor Names
Brian J. Schlosser0
James R. Boykin0
Alberto Giammaria0
Date of Patent
March 31, 2009
0Patent Application Number
114254630
Date Filed
June 21, 2006
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent 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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