Method of normalizing software usage data from mainframe computers
AssigneeIsogon Corporation
InventorsDavid Vardi, Robert Barritz, Peter Kassan, Gerald Cohen
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring and reporting on the usage of software programs on a computer system interfaces with other systems that measure the computer system performance parameters over time. The system integrates the information for both systems to provide software usage reporting that is normalized to a computer performance criteria or index. Optionally, the restated results are fed back to the software usage reporter, to enable obtaining the results of the methodology of the invention from existing computer software usage reporting programs.
Claims24
A method of normalizing software usage data that is gathered in relation to the execution of software products on a computer, the method comprising the steps of:
- running a first software and determining the capacity of the computer over time and obtaining computer capacity data;
- running a second software that determines the usage of the software products on the computer over time;
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- correlating usage information obtained by the second software with computer capacity data obtained by the first software in a manner which restates the results of the software usage data based on variations over time of the computer capacity data.
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