公开(公告)号：US20170169195A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US14970388

申请日：2015-12-15

Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.

Inventor： Armand Glen LiSanti ,  Belinda Wong ,  Durgaprasad Guduguntla ,  James Morris ,  Jun Huang ,  Matthew Small ,  Saianitha Badrinath ,  Samarpan Jain ,  Si Wan Kim ,  Vijaya Natanni

IPC: G06F21/10 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: G06F21/105 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/025 ,  H04L67/06 ,  H04L67/34

Abstract: Techniques and architectures for granular licensing in a computing environment having access to an app exchange that provides a listing of multiple apps available to a remote client electronic device in response to a download request. A registration request corresponding to a software package having multiple modules is received. A license definition is transmitted from the management entity. The license definition includes a license for one or more of the multiple modules. The software package and license definition are registered with the management entity, so that only authorized management entities can store license definitions or grant licenses. The license definitions are stored in a memory associated with the management entity. One or more licenses are transmitted to a client electronic device. The one or more licenses correspond to one or more of the multiple modules of the software package that the client electronic device is authorized to utilize. The client electronic device is capable of acquiring the software package from the app exchange. The one or more licenses are capable of authorizing the client electronic device to utilize the one or more licensed modules.

公开(公告)号：US20180018745A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-18

申请号：US15208492

申请日：2016-07-12

Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.

Inventor： Armand Glen Lisanti ,  James Morris ,  Joseph E. Downs ,  Jun Huang ,  Matthew Small ,  Nathan J. Horne ,  Walter S. Harley

IPC: G06Q50/18

CPC classification number: G06Q50/184 ,  G06Q2220/18

Abstract: Licensing as a service. A software package is downloaded from the app exchange in response to a download request. One or more licenses are received from a licensing entity by a client electronic device. The one or more licenses are maintained by the licensing entity for tenants of disparate heterogeneous cloud environments and provide the client electronic device authorization to utilize the software package. The licenses received from the licensing entity are assigned to one or more users within the client electronic device so that those users are granted access to the corresponding package. The client electronic device utilizes the software package with the one or more licenses as authorization.