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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2012
Applicants:
Ajay Sood, Bangalore, IN;
Vijay K. Sukthankar, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Ajay Sood, Bangalore, IN;
Vijay K. Sukthankar, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided are techniques for the costing of a license based on real-time usage of software on a hardware resource instead of upfront PVU based purchase of licenses. Service provider need not pay for the license charge till the end of life of that application and need not pay for an entire set of N licenses, considering that the service provider expects that the maximum number of application instances could be N.