This inventor holds 2 USPTO granted patents. Top assignee: Flexera Software LLC. Active years: 2014.
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Company Filing History:
Years Active: 2014
Title: Mark Lance Woollard: Software Licensing Under Machine Virtualization.
Introduction
Mark Lance Woollard is an inventor associated with Portland, Maine, and Flexera Software LLC. His patent work addresses software licensing in virtualized computing environments. The supplied information lists 2 patents.
Latest Patents
Woollard’s listed patent, “Method and System for Software Licensing Under Machine Virtualization,” describes a system for managing software licenses on a physical machine running a virtual platform. A binding agent operates on the host operating system and communicates with a license enforcement module running in a virtual machine. The binding agent uses a mutex lock to ensure that no more than a specified number of license enforcement modules run on the physical machine.
The supplied data lists this same patent title and description twice, so it does not identify a second distinct patent.
Career Highlights
Woollard’s listed invention focuses on enforcing software license limits across virtual machines. The approach coordinates a host-level binding agent with virtual-machine license enforcement modules to control how many instances may run on a physical machine.
Collaborations
The supplied information identifies Flexera Software LLC as Woollard’s company and Sai Vedantam as a coworker.
Conclusion
Mark Lance Woollard’s listed patent work concerns software license enforcement in virtualized systems, using coordination between host and virtual-machine components to manage permitted usage.
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