Avaya Inc.

Avaya Technology LLC

Extreme Networks, Inc.

William Thomas Walker

Kurt H Haserodt

Robert J Serkowski

John Meiners

Donald E Gillespie

Renee Krahn

Bruce P Mazza

Mary K Lourenco

Leslie Levy

Lawrence John Morgan

Bruce G Lieou

Thorsten Ohrstrom-Sandgren

Phillip A Whelan

James E Rhodes

Mohana Krishnan Gopalakrishna

Aabha Biyani

John H Yoakum

David L Chavez

Joel M Ezell

Richard L Robinson

Rifaat Shekh-Yusef

Nancy Schmidt

Benny J Ellis

Robin L Chalmeta

Chinmoy Gangolli

Downloadable pluggable services and methods of distributing the same are described. The downloadable pluggable services may correspond to communication services that can be downloaded to upgrade a communication system. The downloadable pluggable services may include a number of component parts that can be distributed among various servers in the communication system being upgraded along with instructions that enable the component parts to instruct each server in the communication system to operate in a coordinated fashion so as to provide the downloaded service.

Services versioning

In virtualized environments a method of determining authorization to a resource cannot use a hardware specific identifier, such as a MAC address. As a result upgrading a virtual host may cause licenses associated with that host to be invalid, even though the upgraded virtual host should be authorized. Authentication methods and systems are disclosed such that a key may be shared with a second host along with a license file and, provided at least the second host has a key associated with its system identifier and a key associated with a license file, access to a licensed resource may be authorized.

Virtualized host ID key sharing

An enterprise licensing system is provided that includes a licensing agentoperable to (a) provide a customer with a first set of enterprise licensable features and/or capacities and a second set of non-enterprise licensable features and/or capacities, with the enterprise licensable features and/or capacities, but not non-enterprise licensable features and/or capacities, being allocable freely by the customer among first and second computational components; (b) receive a first allocation of the members of the first set between the first and second computational components; and (c) generate first and second licenses reflecting the first allocation. The first license is for the first computational component and the second license is for the second computational component.

Generation of enterprise-wide licenses in a customer environment

A first login request of a user is received from a first login window. The first login request comprises a login name, a user identifier, and a challenge. The challenge is generated and received from a second login request to a product in a second login window. The user copies and pastes the challenge into the first login window. A central control system determines if the login name and the user identifier are valid. If the login name and user identifier are valid, a response to the challenge is generated based a private key and is displayed in the first login window. The response to the challenge is copied from the first login window and pasted as part of a second step the second login process. The second login process verifies the response to the challenge using a public key to allow the user access to the product.

Enhanced access security gateway

In order to provide a more realistic system activity score, an activity monitor gathers activity scores from a plurality of processes on one or more communication systems. An activity score defines an activity level of a particular process. For example, how many cache hits per second are occurring in a communication system or how may a HTTP sessions a web server is handling per second. Because the activity scores are gathered from individual processes within the communication system(s), a more realistic understanding of the overall activity of the communication system(s) can be determined. The gathered activity scores are summed to produce a system activity score. The system activity score is then sent to a user. The user can then utilize the system activity score to better manage the communication system(s).

Abstract activity counter

Dynamic customization of pluggable service by users

Attribute scoping and hierarchy

Downloadable pluggable services

A request to activate a license file is received by a licensing system. The license file comprises a number of licenses. A license may be any type of license. The license file is assigned a license file identifier. A license extension is assigned to the license file identifier. A request to acquire a portion (or all) of the number of licenses of the license file is received from an entity. The portion (or all) of the number of licenses of the license file is assigned to the entity based on the license extension. The entity can then use the licenses as necessary.

Centralized licensing system

Methods and systems for allocating licenses to devices are provided. More particularly, the devices included in a system may each require a license having a release value that is equal to or greater than the release value of the device in order to be fully operational. Upon the unregistration of a device, the highest cost or value license that can be made available while maintaining proper registration of the remaining registered devices is freed. More particularly, the difference between the number of devices registered and the licenses used is calculated for each release value. A variance for each release value, beginning with the least cost or lowest release value license and working towards the highest cost or value license is then calculated. The highest cost license that can be released is equal to the license value for which the calculated variance is equal to zero.

Method and apparatus for assigning and releasing licenses

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Evergreen, CO, United States of America

William Thomas Walker