Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Real-time license metering of a provisioned application in a cloud computing environement
- Patent Title (中): 在云计算环境中配置应用程序的实时许可证计量
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Application No.: US12894571Application Date: 2010-09-30
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Publication No.: US08589312B2Publication Date: 2013-11-19
- Inventor: Ajay Sood , Vijay K. Sukthankar
- Applicant: Ajay Sood , Vijay K. Sukthankar
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Greg Goshorn, P.C.
- Agent Yeen Tham; Gregory K. Goshorn
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; G06F21/00
Abstract:
Provided are techniques for the costing of a license based on real-time usage of software on a hardware resource instead of upfront PVU based purchase of licenses. Service provider need not pay for the license charge till the end of life of that application and need not pay for an entire set of N licenses, considering that the service provider expects that the maximum number of application instances could be N.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120084444A1 REAL-TIME LICENSE METERING OF A PROVISIONED APPLICATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONEMENT Public/Granted day:2012-04-05
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