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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Adam Babol, Lubartow, PL;
Jan Galda, Nowy Sacz, PL;
Piotr P. Godowski, Cracow, PL;
Lukasz T. Jeda, Cracow, PL;
Jacek Midura, Zabierzow, PL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to software provisioning in a computer system comprising client devices connected via a communication network to a computing infrastructure. The computing infrastructure is operable for providing, upon a user's request, a software application package to an already running machine. The software provisioning system is configured to retrieve session information about a user logged in to the computing infrastructure via a client device, thereby creating a session, determine a list of software application packages that the user is entitled to request to be provided to the running machine so that the user is able to use a software application contained in the software application packages and calculate software application usage information from the session information and the list of software application packages.