Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joydeep Bhattacharyya

Yunus Mohammed

Apurva F Dalia

Sandeep P Karanth

Christopher Gariepy

Christopher J Saam

Venugopala Rao Moram

Lizhong Huang

Rodrigo Junqueira Lode

Methods and computer-readable media are provided herein for implementing custom application programming interfaces (API) for creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications. An offer management service API is implemented that provides methods for creating and modifying offers for packages of online applications. An offer provisioning API is implemented that provides methods enabling the provisioning of online applications for subscribers to offers. An application provider API is published and utilized to provision and maintain individual instances of online applications provided by application providers.

Creating managing, and provisioning packages of online applications

Creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications

Online services offer modeling is provided. A system for managing online offers for products and services includes a components module, an offer module, a subscription module, a billing module and a change management module. The component module defines the properties of components that may be included in an offer. The offer module defines the features of the offer, including one or more components. The components may be a base component or an add-on component. The subscription module processes the provisioning of an offer. The market module specifies countries or regions in which offers are made available. The billing module processes billing and payment actions for an offer. The change management module processes alterations to a provisioned offer, inserting the properties of an add-on component into the properties of a base component.

Online services offer management

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