Flexera Software LLC

Michael J Faulhaber

Bradley W Wong

Nicholas J Bikos

James T Gibson

Embodiments include a computer-implemented method for determining an equivalent license unit of an enterprise computer system in accordance with a standardized graph-based framework. The method includes discovering licensable products of an enterprise computer system in accordance with a standardized graph-based framework, and constructing a licensable product star graph (LPSG) for each licensable product in accordance with the standardized graph-based framework to identify any license models that have at least one subgraph associated with the licensable product. The method further includes constructing a licensable product constellation graph (LPCG) in accordance with the standardized graph-based framework by evaluating each LPSG to determine any common target elements of any license model to link the LPSGs, and determining an equivalent license unit metric for the license models based on the LPCG.

Standardized graph-based framework for determining an equivalent license unit metric for an enterprise computer system

Embodiments include a computer-implemented technique for determining a license position of an enterprise computer system represented in a standardized graph-based framework. The technique includes obtaining information indicative of licensable products and enforceable licenses of an enterprise computer system, tabulating that information in a graph database, and construing an enterprise infrastructure graph and a target element relationship pattern graph of the enterprise computer system based on the tabulated information in accordance with the standardized graph-based framework. Querying the standardized graph-based framework can determine an effect of a target element on a license position of the enterprise computer system by matching the target element relationship pattern graph to any subgraphs of the enterprise infrastructure graph. The method further includes determining a license position of the enterprise computer system based on any matching subgraphs returned in response to the query of the standardized graph-based framework.

Standardized graph-based framework for determining a license position of an enterprise computer system

Application compatibility testing for mobile applications enables enterprises to improve the extraction of mobile application suitability features (MASFs) from an App using techniques other than reading the package's manifest. In addition to performing dependency analysis in the open package format context, embodiments of the invention interpret the analysis results in the context of mobile devices where, in addition to binary, i.e. go/no go, OS compatibility, there is compatibility testing for other suitability metrics, such as enterprise policy compliance and device capability and/or compliance. A MASF results dictionary keeps track of the various identified hardware and software interfaces of the App.

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Michael J Faulhaber