Patent ID: 9590997
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of accessing a service, comprising: receiving, from a requesting user, a request for a number of a plurality of accessing users of an entity to have access to the service; allocating resources, based on the requested number of accessing users, to ensure that the service is provided to the requested number of accessing users; generating, by a processor-based system, service access data associated with the service; providing, by the system to the requesting user, the generated service access data for distribution to the accessing users; receiving, by the system from an accessing user, a request to access the service via the service access data; in response to receipt of the request to access the service from the accessing user, determining, by the system, whether a total number of users from the entity currently having access to the service has reached the requested number of accessing users for the entity to have access to the service; in response to a determination that the total number of users from the entity currently having access to the service has not reached the requested number of access users for the entity, requesting, by the system, authentication information from the accessing user and providing, by the system, the service to the accessing user; and in response to a determination that the total number of users from the entity currently having access to the service has reached the requested number of users for the entity, denying the accessing user, access to the service.