Patent Document ID: 8219667
Application ID: 12238209
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying computing system resources comprising: at least one computing device receiving a computing resource DNA associated with a computing resource of a computing system, wherein said computing resource DNA comprises a plurality of computing resource DNA elements, wherein each computing resource DNA element corresponds to at least one identifying characteristic of the computing resource; the at least one computing device ascertaining an existence of a set of at least one potential match for the received computing resource DNA from a set of at least one reference data; the at least one computing device, when the set of at least one potential match exists, calculating a confidence factor for the at least one potential match, wherein calculating the confidence factor further comprises: the at least one computing device assigning a confidence value to each computing resource DNA element of each potential match in the set of at least one potential match, wherein said confidence value is influenced by predefined weighting data; the at least one computing device determining variances in data values and temporal data for computing resource DNA elements present within both the received computing resource DNA and each potential match; and the at least one computing device increasing the confidence value of the computing resource DNA elements whose determined variances meet predetermined variance threshold values; the at least one computing device refining the set of at least one potential match based at least on the confidence factor; the at least one computing device determining an optimum match for the computing resource DNA from the set of at least one potential match; and the at least one computing device identifying the computing resource DNA as a representation of a computing resource associated with the optimum match.