Methods and apparatus for software license management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8997242-B2
Application number	US-201213673104-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2012
Priority date	Nov 9, 2012
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Systems and techniques for managing software licensing are described. When a computing system service request is made, the request is intercepted and software information that may be more or less continuously updated in a managed computing environment is examined to determine the effect of the service request on software usage by the system. The software usage represented by the service request is evaluated based on licensing information to determine license usage by the system and changes in license usage based on the service request, and license usage information is determined based on the software usage and the licensing information. The license usage information may be used in connection with a system of rules to govern actions such as reporting licensing usage or allowing or preventing the use of software based on whether use of the software will violate licensing requirements.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method comprising:
intercepting a computing system service request;
identifying at least one software usage change needed to fulfill the computing system service request, wherein identifying at least one software usage change comprises examining stored software information comprising instance type information, wherein the stored software information is updated as the computing system service request is fulfilled, wherein identifying the at least one software usage…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Chen Han
• Kim Minkyong
• Lei Hui
• Munson Jonathan P
• Subramanian Suraj

Classifications

• G06F21/105 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic