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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2016
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Barrett M. Kreiner, Woodstock, GA (US);
Jonathan L. Reeves, Roswell, GA (US);
Jana Gottlieb, Fenton, MO (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Management of communication systems is facilitated. A method comprises: processing, by a device comprising a processor, first information representative of human-readable language and indicative of terms of agreements associated with respective software for a communication system, wherein the communication system is arranged according to a first configuration of virtual machines and server devices, and wherein the agreements comprise license agreements for the respective software; converting, by the device, the first information into machine-readable rules indicative of the terms of the agreements associated with the respective software for the communication system; and based on a result of comparing the machine-readable rules and first information indicative of the first configuration, determining, by the device, whether the first configuration of the communication system satisfies a defined criterion.