Patent ID: 9514289
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented license management method for use in a license management system, wherein the license management system comprises a plurality of licenses and a plurality of first devices, each of which obtaining one of the licenses, the method comprising: receiving a license request from a second device; separately calculating a license grade for each of the first devices and the second device based on a historical record of license usage corresponding to the first devices and the second device and an algorithm in response to the license request, wherein the historical record of license usage at least includes information regarding a license rating coefficient of a group that a user of the second device belongs to and the license grades are calculated at least based on the license rating coefficient of the group; and when determining to agree the second device to obtain one of the licenses according to the calculated grades and the number of remaining available licenses within the licenses being zero, setting a first time for one selected from the first devices to release a license and releasing the license of the selected one of the first devices and issuing the released license to be used by the second device after the first time has reached.