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Application usage metering management system

  • US 7,634,561 B2
  • Filed: 10/26/2006
  • Issued: 12/15/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method for managing application usage, the method comprising:

  • initiating, by a usage metering and billing (UMB) management module executing on a server via a network, discovery agents executing on one or more on demand platforms for interrogating one or more server resources each executing on one of the one or more on demand platforms;

    interrogating by the discovery agents the one or more server resources to discover a plurality of discrete server processes and associated discovery data for each process, the discovery data comprising a name and hierarchy information associated with each discrete server process;

    collecting the discovery data for the discovered discrete server processes in a centralized repository;

    accessing an application map associated with a particular customer, wherein the application map defines both services and processes associated with the particular customer;

    mapping one or more of the discovered discrete server processes to an application and the particular customer based on the collected discovery data by comparing a discovered path to the application map for the particular customer; and

    in the event of a match between the discovered path and the application map, associating the discovered path and its discovery data with the particular customer and storing an indication of the association; and

    generating a customer bill based on discrete server processes mapped to the particular customer.

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