Definitions
An application is
| “ | [a] system that requires special attention to security due to the risk and magnitude of the harm resulting from the loss, misuse, or unauthorized access to or modification of the information in the application. A breach in an application might comprise other application programs, hardware, software, and telecommunications components. Applications can be either software or a combination of hardware/software where the only purpose of the system is to support a specific mission-related function.[1] | ” |
Applications are
| “ | components and systems that are embedded in a larger environmental or organizational context to solve particular problems, such as air traffic control or electronic commerce. They provide value to end-users, whether the end user is an individual or an organization.[2] | ” |
Overview
The term application has various other meanings, including:
- Automated information system application
- Biometric application
- Domain name registration application
- Geospatial applications
- Intelligence application
- Major application
- Patent application, and its subcategories, including:
- Continuation application
- Continuation-in-part application
- Continued application
- Continuing application
- Design patent application
- Divisional application
- Forfeited application
- Informal application
- International application
- Joint application
- Nonprovisional patent application
- Original application
- Parent application
- Provisional patent application
- Reissue application
- Use-based application
- Software application, and its subcategories, including:
- Application suite
- Business application
- Business process application
- Collaboration application
- Database application
- Desktop application
- E-mail application
- Helper application
- Industrial application
- Killer application
- Location-based application
- Mobile application
- Personal information management application
- Presentation application
- Sensitive application
- Server application
- Spreadsheet application
- Stovepipe application
- Web application
- Workflow application
- Trademark application, and its subcategories, including: