Licensing platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990952-B2
Application number	US-201313970968-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 20, 2013
Priority date	Jun 6, 2013
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

A licensing platform is provided. The licensing platform, in communication with a first license sharing device and a second license sharing device, includes a license database and a main license sharing device. The license database provides a plurality of licenses. The main license sharing device includes: a license allocation manager, in communication with the license database, for dynamically managing a usage status of the plurality of licenses; a next-tier membership manager, in communication with the license sharing devices, for allocating at least one of the plurality of licenses to the license sharing devices, and updating a license usage status of the license sharing devices; and a license record manager, in communication with the license allocation manager and the next-tier membership manager, for recording the usage status of the plurality of licenses.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A licensing platform, in communication with a first license sharing device and a second license sharing device, comprising:
a license database, for providing a plurality of licenses; and
a main license sharing device, comprising:
a license allocation manager, in communication with the license database, for dynamically managing a usage status of the plurality of licenses;
a next-tier membership manager, in communication with the license sharing devices,…

Assignees

• Quanta Comp Inc

Inventors

• Fang Tien-Chin
• Lee Chen-Chung
• Lai Ping-Chi
• Lin Chia-Hung
• Chen Ming-Jen
• Yang Hung-Yu

Classifications

• G06F21/105 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/101 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic