US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on March 31 for "Resource based licensing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,639, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Resource based licensing" was invented by Fei Wu (Shanghai), You-You Huang (Shanghai) and Qiuxia Song (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received from a tenant. For example, the tenant may be a tenant of a multi-tenant cloud service. The request comprises a one or more Configuration Items (CIs). A CI is used to change data on a computer system or network. A computer resource license associated with the tenant is identified. A determination is made to identify if the request meets the computer resource license. In response to the reque...