Patent Document ID: 20130283258
Application ID: 13449431
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for quantifying a consumability of a software bundle, the method comprising the steps of: identifying constituent software products of the bundle; identifying software components an installation of which is a pre-requirement for an installation of the software products; identifying software units an installation of which is a pre-requirement for an installation of the software components; creating dependency graphs for the software components, wherein a dependency graph for a given one of the software components contains all of the software units the installation of which is a pre-requirement for the installation of the given software component; merging the dependency graphs for the software components to create dependency graphs for the software products, wherein a dependency graph for a given one of the software products contains all of the software units and software components the installation of which is a pre-requirement for the installation of the given software product; merging the dependency graphs for the software products to create a dependency graph for the software bundle, wherein the dependency graph for the software bundle contains all of the software units, software components and software products the installation of which is a pre-requirement for the installation of the software bundle; and using the dependency graph for the software bundle to quantify the consumability of the software bundle.