Patent ID: 8874705

Claim:
A method of using a health scoring technique to improve a health of a computer, comprising: processing profile information and a first health score using a computer, wherein the profile information and the first health score are associated with a computer having a resource, wherein the profile information indicates an installed software and a hardware configuration, wherein the health score represents a health of the computer, and wherein the health of the computer is determined from one or more performance metrics; identifying a group of computers having a similar profile from a plurality of computers, wherein two or more computers have a similar profile if they share a threshold percentage of one of installed software applications and installed hardware devices; and identifying an optimal configuration of the resource from among a set of health configuration information using a computer based on the profile information and the health score by comparing the first health score with a second health score for a computer identified from among the group of computers and where the health configuration information comprises a set of data identifying hardware and software configurations and one or more health scores associated with the plurality of computers.