Patent ID: 6978291

Claim:
A computer-based system that correlates process-related data with license use data reflecting use of software products, the system comprising: a process-related software facility that collects and stores computer-based and process-related data that is constituted of one or more data fields selected from a data field group consisting of: job-name; job-id; LOS-id; “accounting” information applicable to a job; job-step-id; user-id; processing-program names; and lists of libraries, files or databases used by a process; a license manager that manages the grant of license use rights to a plurality of software products and which collects and stores data reflecting the use of the software products in the form of software product use data; and a correlator that correlates the software product use data with the process-related data and creates records that reflect the use of the software products related at least in part to the process-related data, and in which the system is configured so that the software products are represented as a plurality of software clients and the license manager is configured as a license manager server, including a facility that creates a token upon a request by a software client to obtain a license certificate to permit execution thereof, in which the token is created by a client exit routine (CER).