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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1996
Thomas William Bereiter, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A large distributed enterprise includes computing resources that are organized into one or more managed regions, each region being managed by a management server servicing one or more gateway machines, with each gateway machine servicing a plurality of endpoint machines. A method of auditing software usage in the environment begins by deriving a count of a number of simultaneous method invocations of one or more application programs that occur in response to a system management task. The count is then used to determine whether an authorized number of copies of each application program within the managed region has been exceeded. This protocol obviates a dedicated licensing server.