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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Applicants:
Rahul C. Ravulur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David R. Wegman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Gerard, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rahul C. Ravulur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David R. Wegman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Gerard, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method identifies the times that certain applications are started and stopped on a computer system and such information about several computer systems is collected using a central computer system to allow decisions regarding software may be made based on usage of those certain applications.