Patent ID: 7801895

Claim:
A method for automatic classification of a node in a network, comprising the steps of determining at least one data class; automatically classifying data stored on said node according to said at least one data class; determining the amount of the data classified according to said at least one data class, wherein the determining the amount of the data classified according to said at least one data class comprises determining the number of files stored on said node which are classified according to said at least one data class and the average size of said files; calculating, from the determined amount of the data classified into said at least one data class and a relative potential storage capacity, a dominance value for each of said at least one data class, said dominance value being a measure for the relative dominance of the data stored on the node classified according to one of said at least one data class to all other of said at least one data class; receiving a request that indicates a data type corresponding to one of said at least one data class; and providing, in response to the request, said dominance value for said one of said at least one data class corresponding to said data type.