Ying Ro Lin

7809670, Oct 5, 2010

Dec 8, 2006

11/608625

Tony Lee - San Francisco CA, US
Jigar J. Mody - Bellevue WA, US
Ying Lena Lin - Sammamish WA, US
Adrian M. Marinescu - Sammamish WA, US
Alexey A. Polyakov - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00

706 59, 726 22

The present invention is directed to a method and system for automatically classifying an application into an application group which is previously classified in a knowledge base. More specifically, a runtime behavior of an application is captured as a series of events which are monitored and recorded during the execution of the application. The series of events are analyzed to find a proper application group which shares common runtime behavior patterns with the application. The knowledge base of application groups is previously constructed based on a large number of sample applications. The construction of the knowledge base is done in such a manner that each sample application can be classified into application groups based on a set of classification rules in the knowledge base. The set of classification rules are applied to a new application in order to classify the new application into one of the application groups.