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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Alexander E. Nosov, Bellevue, WA (US);

Yashesvi Sharma, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06Q 20/10 (2012.01); H04L 41/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06Q 20/102 (2013.01); H04L 41/5096 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method include association of a first plurality of software licenses of a first type with a first subscription associated with a first plurality of cloud-based resources, determination of a first number of the first plurality of software licenses to activate based on the types of the first plurality of resources, activation of the first number of the first plurality of software licenses, monitoring of usage of the first plurality of resources, determination, based on the monitored usage, of a second one or more resources to associate with the first subscription, determination, in response to determining the second resources, of a second number of the first plurality of software licenses to activate based on the types of the second one or more resources, activation of the second number of the first plurality of software licenses, and association of the second resources with the first subscription.


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