US 2015/0032415 A1 · System and Method for Software Application Usage Metering Using Data Store

Abstract

A system and method for usage metering software applications (or features or functions) by monitoring the data store underlying the software application. The data store function may be implemented in many ways, such as a Relational Database, Transactional Database, Network and Graph Database, Object-Oriented Database, Embedded Database, In-memory Database, Schema-less Database, Files and Directories, whether structured or unstructured, Configuration Registries, or Non-traditional Repositories. Business activities performed by the software application are tracked and are independent of hardware usage. Such usage data is valuable in a variety of contexts, including billing based on business activity.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for providing usage data for a software application, feature, or function (AFF) based on consumption of data, comprising:

running said software application, feature, or function (AFF) on a host computer producing data store activities on said computer;
monitoring said data store activities associated with running said AFF on said host computer;
cross-referencing said data store activities against data consumption from running said AFF on said computer host;
and
producing usage data based upon said cross-referencing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/136,508Filed 20 Dec 2013

Priority

26 Dec 2012

Published

29 Jan 2015

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G06Q 20/145
Specially adapted for billing systems: payments according to the detected use or quantity
G06F 8/77
Software maintenance or management: software metrics
G06F 11/3034
Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored: where the computing system…
G06F 11/3003
Monitoring: monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored

System and Method for Software Application Usage Metering Using Data Store

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Abstract

Claims20