Patent ID: 8620820
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith and executable by the at least one processor, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to create a base image, the base image corresponding to a combination of an operating system and hardware; computer readable program code configured to embed a purchasing medium client into the base image, the purchasing medium client comprising an enterprise app store client; computer readable program code configured to develop a provisioning request for a pay-per-use license; computer readable program code configured to compose a product-bundle specification corresponding to the provisioning request, via selecting managed products and editing co-configuration properties; computer readable program code configured to start a provisioned instance based on the composed product-bundle specification, wherein to start the provisioned instance comprises dynamically transforming the base image into a provisioned image; computer readable program code configured to execute a product bundle plan based on the composed product-bundle specification; computer readable program code configured to employ the enterprise app store client to interact with the enterprise app store to request and fetch the license from a purchasing medium, the purchasing medium comprising a license pool; and computer readable program code configured to populate the license pool via: