US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 6 for "Replicating software containers to model license needs" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,979, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Replicating software containers to model license needs" was invented by Logan Bailey (Atlanta), Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Suman Patra (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product replicate software containers based on established metrics. The method includes receiving a request for installation of a software application in a computing environment. The method also includes identifying a license metric for th...