Patent ID: 9106630
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of gathering data in response to an event comprising: identifying, by an agent discovery service, a plurality of computer environments coupled to a network; authenticating, by a controller communicatively coupled to the agent discovery service, the plurality of computer environments; authenticating, by the controller, one or more users; providing, by the controller, an interface to an authenticated user of the one or more users; allowing, by the controller, the authenticated user to define a parameter identifying a characteristic of data to be gathered from the plurality of authenticated computer environments; allowing, by the controller, the authenticated user to reduce an amount of data gathered and transported from each of the plurality of authenticated computer environments by remotely (i) comparing data in the authenticated computer environments with the parameter and (ii) filtering out data that does not satisfy the parameter so that (a) filtered out data is remotely separated from other data, (b) the filtered out data is not transported from at least one of the plurality of authenticated computer environments, and (c) the other data is transported from the one of the plurality of authenticated computer environments; marking, by the controller, the gathered data as gathered from a particular authenticated computer environment; and providing, by the controller, access to the authenticated user to the gathered data, wherein,