Patent ID: 9104844
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A dynamic software license platform, comprising: a license pool; a register manager used for receiving a request from a user end to use a piece of software; a user configure unit used for granting a permission to the user end in response to the request, to thereby allow the user end to submit a license setting that indicates a scope of the use desired by the user end; and a license manager used for adding a software license provided by a supplier of the piece of software to the license pool, and dynamically providing the software license from the license pool to the user end according to the license setting submitted by the user end; wherein the license setting from the user end indicates whether the software license is provided to either of a computer host of the user end and a virtual machine in the dynamic software license platform; and wherein, when a number of software licenses required by the user end is greater than a number of the software licenses of the license pool, a highest priority user gets the software license and ordinary priority users share remaining software licenses according to a request order of the ordinary priority users.