Patent ID: 9491049
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F,G16H,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, performed at an enterprise, comprising: building a defined configuration for a device type; comparing an actual configuration of a device having the device type to the defined configuration, the actual configuration and defined configuration being stored in a database of the enterprise; associating, based on the comparing, the device with a group that corresponds to the defined configuration, the device being associated with the group automatically because the device meets at least one criterion of the group; identifying an event that triggers a group evaluation to determine, absent user input, whether the device is to be moved out of the group, data representing the event being received from a monitoring agent when the device is updated; performing the group evaluation; and based on the group evaluation, moving the device out of the group or keeping the device in the group.