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Information management assistant

  • US 8,983,909 B2
  • Filed: 05/04/2010
  • Issued: 03/17/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • discovering, by an information management (IM) assistant implemented in a computer, multiple disparate IM clients, wherein the IM assistant is separate from the IM clients;

    discovering, by the IM assistant, a plurality of IM entities provided by a given IM client of the IM clients;

    in response to discovering the plurality of IM entities, determining, by the IM assistant whether an agent is to be deployed for a first of the plurality of IM entities;

    in response to determining that the agent is to be deployed for the first IM entity, deploying the agent at the given IM client;

    determining, by the IM assistant, a data movement plan that indicates how data should move between the multiple IM clients;

    coordinating, by the IM assistant, activities of agents of the multiple IM clients to execute the data movement plan; and

    storing, in a knowledge base of the IM assistant, information derived from monitoring execution of the data movement plan.

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