369 results about "Software usage" patented technology

A software monitoring and auditing system which determines the inventory of software products on a computer includes data reducer software which processes detailed software usage data gathered by a monitoring component of the software to create a condensed usage database. The reducer software contemporaneously converts the data records in a manner which reduces the amount of data records by at least a factor of 100, consuming less computer memory and allowing users of the software monitoring and auditing system to review usage data on a desktop PC or the like.

A method for reducing unauthorized software use includes supplying a first authorization code with the software. The first authorization code enables the software on a computer for use by a user for an initial authorized period upon entry by the user. The user is required to contact the representative for retrieval of an additional authorization code. The software is operable during a subsequent authorization period beyond the initial authorization period without further or continual communication with the representative following entry of the additional authorization code. The user chooses manual or electronic registration and provides registration information to the representative prior to retrieval of the additional authorization code. The registration information includes computer specific information. The additional authorization code is communicated to the software upon the registration information indicating that the software has not been previously registered or upon the registration information matching a portion of previously provided registration information.

Methods and devices are provided for managing licenses in gaming networks. Some aspects of the invention are provided as a license manager module that operates as part of a server-based system for provisioning and configuring gaming machines. Security and authentication techniques are provided to prevent unauthorized gaming software usage. Such gaming software may be, for example, downloaded to gaming machines in the network under the control of a gaming establishment's game management server that is in communication with a license manager device. In preferred implementations, a gaming machine is prevented from executing software for a game of chance unless the license for that game is valid and has not expired.

The amount of virtual disk space that is available for use by software executing within a virtual machine may be dynamically adjusted while the virtual machine is running in a virtual computer system. According to one aspect, a method for flexible run-time reservation of disk space from a virtual machine is provided. The method includes designating for use by a first virtual machine, a fixed portion of disk space accessible by a computing system. The first virtual machine is activated. During operation of the first virtual machine, a portion of the fixed portion of the disk space designated for use by the first virtual machine is reserved from within the first virtual machine. Use of the reserved portion is controlled from outside of the first virtual machine.

A method of upgrading a wireless communication network node comprises transferring new software modules to the node as needed, saving existing configuration information for the old version of software, and configuring the node for operation with the new version of software using the saved configuration information where appropriate. The upgrade method saves a listing of data instances used by the old software, and saves the actual configuration values for those data instances. Then, the upgrade method configures the node for operation with the software by determining which data instances used in the new version of software had corresponding data instances in the old software, and using the saved configuration information for those data instances. For data instances where reuse of prior configuration data is not possible, or is not desired, the method uses default configuration data, which may be supplied in the form of an upgrade configuration file.

The invention provides a software and/or software information pushing method, comprising the following steps of: 102, associatively storing software use information of a user and an identifier of the user into a database; 104, determining a user group of the user according to the attribute of the user logging in a software shop service end; and 106, searching and counting the software use information of each user in the database according to the identifier of each user in the user group, and pushing the software and/or the software information to the logged user according to a statistical result. According to the provided software and/or software information pushing method, a recommendation principle according to a software category per se or a user category is discarded, the user group for the user is established according to the attribute of the user to form the pushing information to push the software and/or the software information to the user. The invention also provides a software and/or software information pushing system, a software shop service system comprising the system, a software and/or software information acquisition device and a mobile terminal with the device.

Under embodiments of the present invention, a set (at least one) of Clouds, a set of software providers, and a set of Cloud consumers (hereinafter “consumers”) are registered with a Cloud software license broker (hereinafter “broker”). Consumer information will be matched with the set of software providers to determine applicable licenses as well as pricing and usage rates. Use of software within the set of Clouds by the set of Cloud consumers will be tracked, aggregated, and reported. Based on the use, a licensing arrangement (including a price) will be determined. Applicable amounts will then be billed, and payments will be collected and disbursed (e.g., to the set of software providers) in accordance with the licensing arrangements. Under the present invention, prices/amounts can be determined based on a per use/on-demand of software and/or based on use of the software over an interval of time (e.g., interval-based pricing).

A computer software license management system wrapper for use in a local computer is described. The software wrapper includes a wrapper interface that provides controlled access to a computer software application file. The software application file is encapsulated by security software code to protect it from unauthorized access. The software wrapper also includes a software license key identifying a license policy specifying a use limitation within a geographic boundary. In addition, the software wrapper includes a license validation mechanism that periodically determines compliance with the license policy. The license validation mechanism permits access by another process operating on the local computer through the wrapper interface in response to a valid license confirmation signal received from the license server. A license server that utilizes and an electronic storefront that sells software license wrappers having software use limitations within a geographic boundary also are described.

The invention relates to the field of computers, in particular to a detection device and method for a security vulnerability of a dedicated information system. According to the detection device and method disclosed by the invention, a tester can not only access a target system to a testing network but also access the detection device to a production system by connecting a test terminal with the target system, wherein the target system is located in the production system. As the core of the detection device, a system security analysis and test management platform comprises a vulnerability discovering system, a vulnerability authenticating and analyzing system, a permeability testing system, a vulnerability library, a test case library, a report outputting system, a user and permission management system, a system management platform and the like. When the detection device and method for the security vulnerability of the software, provided by the invention, are adopted, the vulnerability can be found before the application of the software, and corresponding strategies can be provided, so that the detection device and method meet the requirement on the emphasis on information security in the current society in a better manner; and moreover, the detection device and method have a higher application value.

A computer software license management system wrapper for use in a local computer is described. The software wrapper includes a wrapper interface that provides controlled access to a computer software application file. The software application file is encapsulated by security software code to protect it from unauthorized access. The software wrapper also includes a software license key identifying a license policy specifying a use limitation within a geographic boundary. In addition, the software wrapper includes a license validation mechanism that periodically determines compliance with the license policy. The license validation mechanism permits access by another process operating on the local computer through the wrapper interface in response to a valid license confirmation signal received from the license server. A license server that utilizes and an electronic storefront that sells software license wrappers having software use limitations within a geographic boundary also are described.

A configurable computer resource usage system for collecting hardware and software usage from computer systems with various operating systems, aggregating and filtering the data, transferring it to a centralized computer system, and performing analysis to determine if a hardware or software upgrade is needed. A computer software product that executes on a client computer workstation and collects performance data relevant to that specific machine and data indicating the versions of software and hardware components installed on that machine. A centralized computer that receives the performance and versioning data, stores it, aggregates it with other static data, and performs analysis to determine if the client computer is an upgrade candidate. A graphical user interface displaying the analysis and relevant summarized data is provided through one of several methods, including a web browser accessing the data over the Internet or LAN or WAN.

A software tagging application is configured to measure software application usage within an enterprise deployment. The software tagging application using the concepts of tags, and extends the use of tags to convey monitored software usage. This usage data is written to the tag and secured with a signature calculated using public/private key cryptography. The signature ensures that the usage data collected is correct and has not been tampered with. Usage data refers to both the number of client versions of the software and specific software features installed, and any type of metric for monitoring real usage of the specific software features, for example the number of minutes used, and the start and stop times that the feature was executed. Monitoring usage in this manner provides a dynamic usage model that tracks current and historical software usage, from an enterprise-wide level down to a specific user and feature level.

The invention discloses a software legality checking system of device control system, which consists of device control server and terminal device, wherein terminal device includes device control proxy and device control information memory module for storing checking information and one checking modular. The invention also discloses a software legality checking method based on device control protocol with uniform encryption mode, registration code and digital copyright control mode. The invention is favorable for software provider controlling and managing, which guarantees the legality of software usage.

Browser-based software uses image tiling techniques to display interactive charts of large scale, time-based datasets. Scalable Vector Graphics instantiated from code loaded in memory associated with a server dynamically generates image tiles at the server, which tiles are then selectively called up and downloaded to a client system for display. The server consolidates requested data into averaged data points and then renders an overall graphic representation by appropriately assembling the averaged data points into discrete tiles. Mapping-based tiling software at the client system assembles a composite image of a portion of a chart/graph for a user-selected region at a selected resolution within a viewport of predetermined size, considerably improving graph interaction and reducing rendering times over existing Flash-based solutions. The server is configured to pre-empt selection of any particular area by generating a sub-layer of tiles that would, upon request, be immediately downloadable to the client system.

A method and apparatus for a metadata-driven upgrade of a network element is described. A network element comprises an active and backup controller card and receives new software to be installed on that network element. In addition, the network element installs the software on the backup controller card and synchronizes the active state of the network element to the backup controller card. Furthermore, the network element uses metadata to translate the active state to the format used by the new software.

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.

A “Bring Your Own License” (BYOL) service can convert users' “off-the-shelf” (OTS) software licenses for use in public clouds according to rules provided by independent software vendors (ISVs). The BYOL service can offer additional license terms to the users during conversion of the OTS software license on behalf of the ISVs. The additional license terms can be an expansion of the use of the software, an expansion of the technical support offer by the new cloud license, and expansion of the duration of use.