Patent ID: 7496575

Claim:
A method for controlling activity in an application process comprising: running a profiler process as an autonomous process that is separate from the application process, the profiler process further performing the steps of: capturing sets of low-level events with respect to operation of the application profile, the low-level events being performed by an administrative user and corresponding to application-level activities associated with the application process; and generating application profiles representing the correspondences of the sets of low-level events to the application-level activities; and running an agent process as an autonomous process that is separate from the application process, the agent process further performing the steps of: detecting a set of predetermined low-level events related to operation of the application process by a user; identifying at least one application profile that represents a correspondence of the set of detected low-level user events to an application- level activity associated with the application process; and controlling further permitted application-level activities, according to one or more rules associated with the application profile that corresponds to the detected set of low-level events, without modifying program logic of the application process.