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CA Inc. Assigned Patent for System and Method for Collecting Installed Software Application Data(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 17 -- CA Inc., Islandia, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,490,076) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for collecting installed software application data." The co-inventors are Michael Wolf, Paderborn, Germany, Matthias Roth, Bad Lippspringe, Germany Gerhard Scholand, Paderborn, Germany, and Achim Recksiek, Soest, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for collecting installed application data from a computer system. The method includes scanning a file system of the computer system to produce file system data, and scanning an installed application database of the computer system to produce installed application data. The method further includes collecting system information associated with the computer system. The method still further includes combining the file system data, the application data, and the system information to produce an output file." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/770,393). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,490,076&OS=8,490,076&RS=8,490,076 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0717HP0717-902229 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |