公开(公告)号：US09632897B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-25

申请号：US11963387

申请日：2007-12-21

申请人： Scot MacLellan ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Antonio Perrone ,  Antonio Romeo

发明人： Scot MacLellan ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Antonio Perrone ,  Antonio Romeo

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06F21/10

CPC分类号： G06F9/542 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F11/3006 ,  G06F21/10 ,  G06F21/105 ,  G06F2221/0797 ,  G06F2221/2101

摘要： A solution is proposed for monitoring usage of bundles in the OSGi environment. For this purpose, an event notification interface of the OSGi environment is exploited. Particularly, each event relating to a change of state of a bundle (such as its addition, removal, starting and stopping) is detected by an auxiliary bundle—which previously subscribed to the event notification interface. The auxiliary bundle can then forward the detected events to a licensing agent, which identifies the bundle by means of a software catalog. In this way, the desired result is achieved without requiring any instrumentation of the bundles to be monitored.

公开(公告)号：US20070198423A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-23

申请号：US11676524

申请日：2007-02-20

申请人： Giancarlo Carbone ,  Fabio Cerri ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： Giancarlo Carbone ,  Fabio Cerri ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： H04L9/00

CPC分类号： G06F21/10 ,  G06F2221/2135

摘要： A solution (500) for metering the usage of software products is proposed. For this purpose, a software catalogue (520c) is used to associate each software product to be metered with an installation signature and a usage signature. In the proposed solution, a scope (A2-A5) is determined for each installation item and usage item (available in the system), which match an installation signature and a usage signature, respectively; the scope represents a property specific of the context of an instance of the corresponding software product. The scope of each usage item (such as a path for an executable module) is then best matched (A6-A7) with one of the scopes of the installation items of the corresponding software product (another path for a different file); for example, this process is based on the number of common levels between the two paths. In this way, the scopes associated with the usage items identifying the running of the same software product may be used to discriminate (A13-A15) different instances of this software product.

摘要翻译： 提出了一种用于计量软件产品使用的解决方案（500）。 为此，软件目录（520c）用于将要计量的每个软件产品与安装签名和使用签名相关联。 在提出的解决方案中，为每个安装项目和使用项目（在系统中可用）分别确定与安装签名和使用签名相匹配的范围（A 2 -A 5） 范围表示特定于相应软件产品实例上下文的属性。 然后，每个使用项目（例如可执行模块的路径）的范围与相应软件产品的安装项目的一个范围（不同文件的另一个路径）最佳匹配（A 6 -A 7）; 例如，该过程基于两个路径之间的共同级别的数量。 以这种方式，可以使用与识别相同软件产品的运行的使用项目相关联的范围来区分（A 13 -A 15）该软件产品的不同实例。

公开(公告)号：US08392547B2

公开(公告)日：2013-03-05

申请号：US11532121

申请日：2006-09-15

申请人： Domenico D'Alterio ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Paolo Salerno ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： Domenico D'Alterio ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Paolo Salerno ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  G06F9/455

CPC分类号： H04L41/0853 ,  G06F21/105 ,  H04L63/10

摘要： The invention proposes a solution for controlling logical guest machines, such as virtual machines or logical partitions, in a system management application (and especially in a licensing application). There is provided an enabler running in a physical host machine implementing the guest machines or in a corresponding console; this enabler gathers information relating to the hardware configuration of the host machine (which information is not available inside the guest machine). The hardware configuration information is then passed to a licensing agent of the guest machine; for example, the desired result may be achieved by means of dedicated variables or registry keys that are accessible without providing any user credentials. The licensing agent directly gathers other information, for example, indicating the software products that are used by the guest machine. The available information is then transmitted by the licensing agent to a runtime server for the correct management of the guest machine.

摘要翻译： 本发明提出了一种在系统管理应用程序（特别是许可应用程序）中控制诸如虚拟机或逻辑分区之类的逻辑客机的解决方案。 提供了在实现客机或在相应控制台中的物理主机中运行的启动器; 该启动器收集与主机的硬件配置有关的信息（该信息在客机内部不可用）。 然后将硬件配置信息传递给客机的许可代理; 例如，期望的结果可以通过可访问的专用变量或注册表项来实现，而不提供任何用户凭证。 许可代理直接收集其他信息，例如指示客机使用的软件产品。 然后，可用的信息由许可代理发送到运行时服务器，以正确管理客机。

公开(公告)号：US20070067433A1

公开(公告)日：2007-03-22

申请号：US11532121

申请日：2006-09-15

申请人： Domenico D'Alterio ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Paolo Salerno ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： Domenico D'Alterio ,  Marco Mechelli ,  Paolo Salerno ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06F15/177

CPC分类号： H04L41/0853 ,  G06F21/105 ,  H04L63/10

摘要： The invention proposes a solution (200) for controlling logical guest machines (110), such as virtual machines or logical partitions, in a system management application (and especially in a licensing application). For this purpose, there is provided an enabler (220;270) running in a physical host machine (115) implementing the guest machines or in a corresponding console (125); this enabler gathers information relating to the hardware configuration of the host machine (which information is not available inside the guest machine). The hardware configuration information is then passed to a licensing agent (235) of the guest machine; for example, the desired result may be achieved by means of dedicated variables or registry keys (260) that are accessible without providing any user credentials. The licensing agent directly gathers other information, for example, indicating the software products (230) that are used by the guest machine. The available information is then transmitted by the licensing agent to a runtime server (105) for the correct management of the guest machine.

摘要翻译： 本发明提出了一种用于在系统管理应用程序（特别是许可应用程序）中控制诸如虚拟机或逻辑分区的逻辑访客机器（110）的解决方案（200）。 为此，提供了在实现客机或在对应的控制台（125）中的物理主机（115）中运行的启动器（220; 270）。 该启动器收集与主机的硬件配置有关的信息（该信息在客机内部不可用）。 然后将硬件配置信息传递给客机的授权代理（235）; 例如，期望的结果可以通过可访问的专用变量或注册表项（260）来实现，而不提供任何用户凭证。 许可代理直接收集其他信息，例如指示客机使用的软件产品（230）。 然后，许可代理将可用信息发送到运行时服务器（105），以正确管理客机。

公开(公告)号：US09672545B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-06

申请号：US13388049

申请日：2010-07-16

申请人： Scot Maclellan ,  Bernardo Pastorelli ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： Scot Maclellan ,  Bernardo Pastorelli ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06Q99/00 ,  G06Q30/04 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q50/18

CPC分类号： G06Q30/04 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q50/184

摘要： In one embodiment, a system for license management includes logic adapted for arranging entitlement slots under a plurality of licenses, each entitlement slot being configured for affording entitlement to use of an instance of a software application during a particular time frame, logic adapted for determining a license use signature from recorded license attribution information, logic adapted for receiving a notification of an instance not attributed to a license, and logic adapted for attributing the non-attributed instance to one of the plurality of licenses as a function of the license use signature, wherein each license has an entitlement value defining a maximum number of entitlement slots that may be attributed to that license during the time frame and any given instance of the software application may consume any number of the entitlement slots including zero entitlement slots.

公开(公告)号：US08479152B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-02

申请号：US12910378

申请日：2010-10-22

申请人： Giuseppe Ciano ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： Giuseppe Ciano ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06F9/44

CPC分类号： G06F8/10 ,  G06F11/3672

摘要： Modeling non-functional requirements (NFRs) in a computer programming environment. In one aspect, this further comprises: identifying use case (UC) artifacts having one or more NFRs; retrieving the one or more NFRs and any data associated therewith; analysing the associated data to define a test case therefor; retrieving a UC realization from a model to determine one or more possible program flows; and testing each possible program flow to select the test case which verifies the use case required, thereby modeling the NFR.

摘要翻译： 在计算机编程环境中建模非功能需求（NFR）。 一方面，这还包括：识别具有一个或多个NFR的用例（UC）伪影; 检索一个或多个NFR和与之相关联的任何数据; 分析相关数据以定义其测试用例; 从模型检索UC实现以确定一个或多个可能的程序流; 并测试每个可能的程序流程，以选择验证所需用例的测试用例，从而对NFR进行建模。

公开(公告)号：US20070150587A1

公开(公告)日：2007-06-28

申请号：US11564486

申请日：2006-11-29

申请人： SALVATORE D'ALO ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： SALVATORE D'ALO ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F21/105 ,  G06F11/3466 ,  G06F21/121 ,  G06F2201/865 ,  G06F2221/2135

摘要： A method and a corresponding apparatus for managing software licenses on a plurality of computer are proposed. The present method and system aim at populating a software catalog without the manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base (the catalog) which contains definitions of software products and the related use signature. Information about software products and their related signature is obtained through a process which gathers information with an automated process which takes an initial snapshot of all processes running on a monitored data processing system and makes a comparison with a final snapshot after execution of a software product has been started. A “use signature” of the software product is then generated according to the difference.

摘要翻译： 提出了一种在多台计算机上管理软件许可证的方法和相应的装置。 本方法和系统旨在填充软件目录，而无需管理员的手动干预。 本发明降低了生产和维护包含软件产品定义和相关使用签名的综合知识库（目录）的成本。 有关软件产品及其相关签名的信息是通过一个采用自动化流程收集信息的过程获得的，该过程对所监控的数据处理系统上运行的所有进程进行初始快照，并在执行软件产品后与最终快照进行比较 已经开始了 然后根据差异生成软件产品的“使用签名”。

公开(公告)号：US08521865B2

公开(公告)日：2013-08-27

申请号：US11564486

申请日：2006-11-29

申请人： Salvatore D'Alo ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： Salvatore D'Alo ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F21/105 ,  G06F11/3466 ,  G06F21/121 ,  G06F2201/865 ,  G06F2221/2135

摘要： A method and a corresponding apparatus for managing software licenses on a plurality of computer are proposed. The present method and system aim at populating a software catalog without the manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base (the catalog) which contains definitions of software products and the related use signature. Information about software products and their related signature is obtained through a process which gathers information with an automated process which takes an initial snapshot of all processes running on a monitored data processing system and makes a comparison with a final snapshot after execution of a software product has been started. A “use signature” of the software product is then generated according to the difference.

摘要翻译： 提出了一种在多台计算机上管理软件许可证的方法和相应的装置。 本方法和系统旨在填充软件目录，而无需管理员的手动干预。 本发明降低了生产和维护包含软件产品定义和相关使用签名的综合知识库（目录）的成本。 有关软件产品及其相关签名的信息是通过一个采用自动化流程收集信息的过程获得的，该过程对所监控的数据处理系统上运行的所有进程进行初始快照，并在执行软件产品后与最终快照进行比较 已经开始了 然后根据差异生成软件产品的“使用签名”。

公开(公告)号：US20120130911A1

公开(公告)日：2012-05-24

申请号：US13388049

申请日：2010-07-16

申请人： Scot Maclellan ,  Bernardo Pastorelli ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： Scot Maclellan ,  Bernardo Pastorelli ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06Q10/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/04 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q50/184

摘要： In one embodiment, a system for license management includes logic adapted for arranging entitlement slots under a plurality of licenses, each entitlement slot being configured for affording entitlement to use of an instance of a software application during a particular time frame, logic adapted for determining a license use signature from recorded license attribution information, logic adapted for receiving a notification of an instance not attributed to a license, and logic adapted for attributing the non-attributed instance to one of the plurality of licenses as a function of the license use signature, wherein each license has an entitlement value defining a maximum number of entitlement slots that may be attributed to that license during the time frame and any given instance of the software application may consume any number of the entitlement slots including zero entitlement slots.

摘要翻译： 在一个实施例中，用于许可证管理的系统包括适于在多个许可证下布置授权时隙的逻辑，每个授权时隙被配置为在特定时间帧内提供使用软件应用的实例的权利，所述逻辑适于确定 来自记录的许可证归属信息的许可证使用签名，适于接收未归因于许可证的实例的通知的逻辑，以及适于将所述非归因实例归属于所述多个许可证中的一个作为许可使用签名的函数的逻辑， 其中每个许可证具有定义在该时间段期间归属于该许可证的授权时隙的最大数量的授权值，并且软件应用的任何给定实例可以消耗包括零授权时隙的任意数量的授权时隙。

公开(公告)号：US20080059378A1

公开(公告)日：2008-03-06

申请号：US11846885

申请日：2007-08-29

申请人： SALVATORE D'ALO ,  Alessandro Donatelli ,  Giovanni Lanfranchi ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

发明人： SALVATORE D'ALO ,  Alessandro Donatelli ,  Giovanni Lanfranchi ,  Scot MacLellan ,  Antonio Perrone

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/04 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q50/06 ,  G06Q50/10

摘要： A solution (200) for metering usage of services—for example, in a SOA framework—is proposed. For this purpose, the submission of any invocation of a provider service (205) by a consumer service (210) is intercepted by a license manager (220); a corresponding request is then submitted to a dedicated licensing service (215), which returns an entitlement code when the consumer service is entitled to submit the service invocation. The service invocation is decorated with this entitlement code and actually submitted to the provider service. The (decorated) service invocation addressed to the provider service is likewise intercepted by another license manager (235); a request is then submitted to the licensing service for verifying the received entitlement code. The running of the provider service is then enabled only if the entitlement code is correct.

摘要翻译： 提出了一种用于计量服务使用的解决方案（例如，在SOA框架中）。 为此，由消费者服务（210）提交对提供者服务（205）的任何调用被许可证管理器（220）拦截; 然后将相应的请求提交给专用许可服务（215），当许可证服务有权提交服务调用时，它返回授权码。 服务调用使用此授权码进行装饰，并实际提交给提供商服务。 寻址到提供商服务的（装饰）服务调用同样被另一许可证管理器（235）拦截; 然后将请求提交给许可服务，以验证接收的授权码。 只有当授权代码正确时，才启用提供商服务的运行。