Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure metering and accounting for cloud services
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Application No.: US13676583Application Date: 2012-11-14
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Publication No.: US09210054B2Publication Date: 2015-12-08
- Inventor: Kirk A. Beaty , Ashish Kundu , Ajay Mohindra , Vijay K. Naik
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Yee & Associates, P.C.
- Agent Louis J. Percello
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing a service is disclosed. A computer system collects information about the use of a set of resources by the service. Responsive to receiving a request to verify information about the use of the set of resources by the service, the computer system generates a description of the use of the set of resources by the service using the information collected. The computer system then creates a response to the request using the generated description of the use of the set of resources by the service as proof of the validity of the information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140136707A1 SECURE METERING AND ACCOUNTING FOR CLOUD SERVICES Public/Granted day:2014-05-15
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