Patent 7603376 was granted and assigned to EMC on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method, apparatus and computer program product for file and folder scanning is presented. A host agent uses a scanning policy from a server, and scans the storage for the host system in accordance with the scanning policy. The host system then builds a data summary from the scanning results. The data summary is then provided to the server where it can be used to modify the storage on the host.