Patent ID: 8918766

Claim:
A system comprising: at least one processor; a memory connected to the at least one processor; and a module that, when loaded into the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to: receive an annotated forest, wherein the annotated forest represents relationships of entities in a computing system, wherein the annotated forest comprises at least one parent node and at least one annotated child node, wherein the at least one annotated child node comprises a child node of the at least one parent node, and wherein the at least one annotated child node is associated with at least one annotation; associate the at least one annotation to at least one immediate parent node of the at least one annotated child node in the annotated forest; and repeatedly propagate the at least one annotation of the at least one annotated child node to parent nodes of the at least one annotated child node until a root node of the annotated forest is reached or to a specified depth of the annotated forest or to nodes with at least one particular characteristic or to nodes with at least one particular annotation.