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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2009
Geoffrey M. Clemm, Lexington, MA (US);
Catherine G. Col, Lexington, MA (US);
William Goddin, Lexington, MA (US);
Carl P. Zetie, Waterford, VA (US);
Geoffrey M. Clemm, Lexington, MA (US);
Catherine G. Col, Lexington, MA (US);
William Goddin, Lexington, MA (US);
Carl P. Zetie, Waterford, VA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A request to activate a software tool can be received, where activation requires a quantity of tokens of a token license model. An entity, project, user-set, user, or combination thereof corresponding to the request can be ascertained. A feature-set to be enabled can be determined by querying preexisting indexed records. The preexisting indexed records can associate different feature-sets to different entities, projects, user-sets, users, or combinations thereof. A token cost can be computed for activating the software tool with the feature-set enabled for the request. Token costs for utilizing the software tool can vary depending upon the enabled feature-set. The computed token cost can be the quantity of tokens required to activate the software tool responsive to the request.