Patent ID: 9672334
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for resolving license assignment ambiguity in a license management computer system, comprising: calculating, via a hardware processor, a set of optimization ratios thresholds (ORTs) corresponding to license entitlements forming an ambiguity entitlement set, wherein each ORT is a relative cost of one license entitlement in the ambiguity set versus another license entitlement in the ambiguity set for both to have at least the same product use right; identifying, via the hardware processor consumption demand requests to access target electronic resources, wherein the license entitlements in the ambiguity entitlement set all grant access to the target electronic resources; calculating, via the hardware processor, optimization ratios (ORs) of the consumption demand requests, wherein each of the ORs is a quantified product use right ratio between that demanded by one of the consumption demand requests relative to another one of the consumption demand requests; sorting, via the hardware processor, the consumption demand requests into a sorted list by ordering the consumption demand request according to the ORs; and assigning, via the hardware processor, the license entitlements to the consumption demand requests based on comparison of the ORs of the consumption demand requests and the ORTs of the license entitlements in the ambiguity entitlement set.