Patent ID: 9230068
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: providing, by a system a platform shared by license managers, application developers, and subscribers; installing, to the system by one of the license managers, a license manager organization for the license manager, the license manager organization allowing the license manager to access applications associated therewith; receiving, by the system from the license manager, a license manager application allowing the license manager to manage the applications associated with the license manager organization; creating, through the system by one of the developers, an application; receiving, by the system from the developer, a specification of the license manager organization for the application; associating, in the system, the license manager organization with the application; storing, by the system, the application in an application exchange directory of the system; retrieving, within the system by the license manager application, package information for the application stored in the application exchange directory; installing, through the system by one of the subscribers, the application from the application exchange directory to an organization of the subscriber within the system; storing, by the system through the license manager application, a record of the installing of the application to the organization of the subscriber; and enabling the license manager to manage licensing properties of the application including access by the subscriber to the application using the license manager application.