System and Method for Autonomic Software Price Variation Via Application Virtualization and Streaming Technology

• US 20090064089A1
• Filed: 08/30/2007
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lowry, Joshua D., Tasinga, Khan M.
• Application Number:
  US11/847,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20090064089A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method for autonomic software price variation for virtualized applications of a computer program. The system includes a virtualization module that divides a software application into a plurality of discrete chunks an autonomic software price variation model that assigned a price to each of the plurality of discrete chunks, and a price update model that determines a number of downloads of each of the plurality of discrete chunks, wherein after a predetermined time period an updated price is computed for each of the plurality of discrete chunks. The present invention can also be viewed as a method that operates by dividing a software application into a plurality of discrete chunks, assigning a price to each of the plurality of discrete chunks, determining a number of downloads of each of the plurality of discrete chunks in a predetermined time period and computing an updated price for each of the plurality of discrete chunks.

Claims

1. A autonomic software price variation for virtualized applications system, the system comprising:

a virtualization module that divides a software application into a plurality of discrete chunks;

a autonomic software price variation model that assigned a price to each of the plurality of discrete chunks; and

a price update model that determines a number of downloads of each of the plurality of discrete chunks, wherein after a predetermined time period, a updated price is computed for each of the plurality of discrete chunks.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the price update model computes the updated price of the plurality of discrete chunks is equal to the number of downloads over a predetermined amount of time that is then multiplied by a price variation factor.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the price update model resets the number of downloads of each of the plurality of discrete chunks to zero after computing the updated price.

4. A method for autonomic software price variation for virtualized applications of a computer program, comprising:

dividing a software application into a plurality of discrete chunks;

assigning a price to each of the plurality of discrete chunks;

determining a number of downloads of each of the plurality of discrete chunks in a predetermined time period; and

computing an updated price for each of the plurality of discrete chunks.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the computing an updated price further comprises:

determining the number of downloads in the predetermined time period;

multiplying by a price variation factor by the result; and

adding the result to the price.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the computing an updated price further comprises:

resetting the number of downloads of each of the plurality of discrete chunks after computing the updated price.