Transaction Licensing System with Entitlement Pool Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud computing systems lack an efficient method for managing and tracking transactions across various entitlement pools, leading to potential overconsumption of licensing entitlements and non-compliance with licensing strategies.
Innovation Solution
A transaction licensing system (TLS) that includes an integration hub (IH) to identify, execute, and track transactions, determining whether to consume entitlements from general or specialized pools based on transaction-specific information, ensuring compliance and preventing unauthorized transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cloud computing service tracks each outbound communication as a transaction and allotts a predetermined number of transactions based on a purchased licensing plan, then licensing compliance is maintained, but the system lacks flexibility in managing different types of transactions across multiple entitlement pools
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the entitlement pool into multiple specialized pools (e.g., development pool, production pool, testing pool) rather than using a single general pool. Each pool can be independently managed and tracked, allowing flexible allocation of transactions to different business purposes while maintaining comprehensive oversight through the integration hub's tracking mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The integration hub acts as an intermediary between client instances and external systems, intercepting and tracking outbound communications. It determines which specialized entitlement pool should be consumed for each transaction based on transaction characteristics, thereby simplifying the complexity by centralizing the decision-making logic in a single intermediary component rather than distributing it across multiple systems.
2Measurement precision
If multiple specialized entitlement pools are created for different applications or business processes, then transaction tracking precision is improved, but the system complexity and difficulty of managing entitlement allocations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The integration hub provides universal functionality by serving as a single point of control for all transaction types across all specialized entitlement pools. It implements a unified tracking and consumption mechanism that works consistently across development, production, testing, and other specialized pools, thereby achieving precise tracking without proportionally increasing management complexity through standardized multi-functional processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary classification of transactions into appropriate specialized entitlement pools before consumption occurs. The integration hub analyzes transaction characteristics in advance and pre-determines which pool should be consumed, thereby enabling precise tracking while simplifying ongoing management by establishing clear allocation rules beforehand rather than making complex decisions in real-time during transaction processing.
3Device complexity
If general entitlement pool is used for all transactions, then system simplicity is maintained, but specialized transaction requirements cannot be properly differentiated and managed
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic entitlement pool selection where the integration hub determines at runtime which specialized pool should be consumed based on the specific transaction characteristics. This dynamic approach allows the system to maintain simplicity in the underlying pool structure while achieving adaptability through flexible, context-aware pool selection and consumption, thereby resolving the contradiction between simplicity and differentiation capability.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a transaction licensing system (TLS) for managing transactions and entitlements in a cloud-based system, wherein a transaction is a communication with an external server. The TLS includes at least one transaction licensing database (TLDB) that is configure to store entitlement and transaction data. The entitlements may include a general entitlement pool, as well as specialized entitlement pools with entitlements for executing particular transactions. The TLS is configured to determine identifying information for a transaction and then use this information to determine whether the general or specialized entitlement pools associated with the transaction has entitlements available in the TLDB to execute the transaction. When a suitable entitlement is determined to be available, the transaction is executed and the general or specialized entitlement pool is appropriately decremented. When no suitable entitlements are available, the TLS returns an exception.