Patent ID: 9183359
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: associating a plurality of licenses with a system having a plurality of devices, wherein each license in the plurality of licenses is associated with at least one of a plurality of release values, wherein each device in the plurality of devices is associated with one of the plurality of release values; registering by a license server at least some of the devices in the plurality of devices, wherein at least some of the licenses in the plurality of licenses are assigned to at least some of the devices in the plurality of devices; calculating by the license server a difference between a number of licenses and a number of registered devices at each of the plurality of release values; and in response to unregistration of a first device, beginning with a lowest release value, calculating by the license server a variance between used licenses and registered devices at each release value until a release value at which the calculated variance is equal to zero.