Patent ID: 9672545
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A system for license management, the system comprising: a license repository storing a plurality of licenses relevant to a particular software application; a computer readable storage medium storing recorded license attribution information; and a processor and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor; the logic causing the processor to: wherein each instance of the software application is configured to consume an independent number of the entitlement slots in a range from 0 entitlement slots to the maximum number of entitlement slots attributable to the particular license, and wherein each entitlement value (E) is calculated as being greater than a probability (C) for each of the plurality of licenses that an arbitrary instance is chargeable according to a particular license multiplied by an average number of slots consumed per instance (S) for the particular license multiplied by a number of instances already attributed to the particular license during the time frame (I), such that E>C*S*I.