Joseph G Downs

US Patent:

20180018745, Jan 18, 2018

Filed:

Jul 12, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/208492

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
James Morris - Lynnwood WA, US
Joseph E. Downs - Edmonds WA, US
Jun Huang - Seattle WA, US
Matthew Small - San Francisco CA, US
Nathan J. Horne - Walnut Creek CA, US
Walter S. Harley - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 50/18

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.