According to an embodiment of the invention, an agent scans a storage server, and collects information about files stored on the storage server. The agent then summarizes the information into a summary, and stores the summary on a database server. The summaries can be accessed by a system administrator...http://www.google.de/patents/US7539702?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7539702 - Pre-summarization and analysis of results generated by an agent
