Patent 7941849 was granted and assigned to Imprivata on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
User activities in various applications are audited using a client-resident agent. An alias for an individual is associated with a user profile for the individual user. The user profile may contain data pertaining to the user's activities within one or more applications. Data in the user profile may be used to determine which actions are audited, and how the audit data is used.