MONITORING COMPUTER SOFTWARE LICENSES

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ELMS	e-academy, Inc.	C.T.T.C., Suite 1500 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5R1 Canada	monitoring of computer software licenses;design and development of computer software, namely, software for monitoring computer software licenses;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A method, computer program product, and apparatus for efficiently utilizing software licenses in a large organization having multiple divisions is disclosed. A preferred embodiment of the present invention accomplishes this goal by providing for a pool of organization-wide software licenses. This license pool is subdivided into a number of reserved or dedicated licenses for each particular division and a set of shared licenses to be shared among the various divisions. A given division, when checking out licenses from the organization-wide pool, will first exhaust its reserved licenses before checking out shared licenses. In the event that all shared licenses are being used, but there are reserved licenses that are sitting idle, a division may borrow a reserved license from another division, subject to the lending division's right of preemption in the event that the borrowed license is needed by the division lending the license.