Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Token licensing mapping costs to enabled software tool features
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Application No.: US13411746Application Date: 2012-03-05
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Publication No.: US08589265B2Publication Date: 2013-11-19
- Inventor: Geoffrey M. Clemm , Catherine G. Col , William Goddin , Carl P. Zetie
- Applicant: Geoffrey M. Clemm , Catherine G. Col , William Goddin , Carl P. Zetie
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Patents On Demand P.A.
- Agent Brian K. Buchheit; Scott M. Garrett
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00 ; G07F19/00 ; G06F21/10 ; G06Q30/06

Abstract:
A request to activate a software tool can be received, where activation requires a quantity of tokens of a token license model. An entity, project, user-set, user, or combination thereof corresponding to the request can be ascertained. A feature-set to be enabled can be determined by querying preexisting indexed records. The preexisting indexed records can associate different feature-sets to different entities, projects, user-sets, users, or combinations thereof. A token cost can be computed for activating the software tool with the feature-set enabled for the request. Token costs for utilizing the software tool can vary depending upon the enabled feature-set. The computed token cost can be the quantity of tokens required to activate the software tool responsive to the request.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120166258A1 TOKEN LICENSING MAPPING COSTS TO ENABLED SOFTWARE TOOL FEATURES Public/Granted day:2012-06-28
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