Servicenow, Inc.

Andrew Whitley Strieber

Rebecca Anita Dias

Joshua Timothy Nerius

Venkata Kiran Kumar Koya

David Terry

Parvathavardhini Shankaranarayanan

Jeremy Michael Charfauros

Karthik Karunakar Kotian

The present disclosure relates to a transaction licensing system (TLS) for managing transactions and entitlements in a cloud-based system, wherein a transaction is a communication with an external server. The TLS includes at least one transaction licensing database (TLDB) that is configure to store entitlement and transaction data. The entitlements may include a general entitlement pool, as well as specialized entitlement pools with entitlements for executing particular transactions. The TLS is configured to determine identifying information for a transaction and then use this information to determine whether the general or specialized entitlement pools associated with the transaction has entitlements available in the TLDB to execute the transaction. When a suitable entitlement is determined to be available, the transaction is executed and the general or specialized entitlement pool is appropriately decremented. When no suitable entitlements are available, the TLS returns an exception.

Systems and methods for transaction-based licensing

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Encinitas, CA, United States of America

Andrew Whitley Strieber