WO2002005184A3 - Method and system for software inventory management using a global central repository - Google Patents

Method and system for software inventory management using a global central repository Download PDF

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WO2002005184A3
WO2002005184A3 PCT/US2001/021502 US0121502W WO0205184A3 WO 2002005184 A3 WO2002005184 A3 WO 2002005184A3 US 0121502 W US0121502 W US 0121502W WO 0205184 A3 WO0205184 A3 WO 0205184A3
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Andrew E Levi
Daniel W Odom
Bradley W Bauer
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Critical Devices Inc
Andrew E Levi
Daniel W Odom
Bradley W Bauer
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • G06Q10/08—Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
    • G06Q10/087—Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F8/00—Arrangements for software engineering
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Abstract

A device (30) at a site (14) includes and agent (100) with a software inventory service (220). The software inventory service scans the device for file names (410). The file names and information associated with the file names, such as a size (422), a date (420) and a platfrom (424) are communicated to an operations center (12) for processing. At the operations center, the file names are assocaited with descriptions (430), manufacturers (432), languages (422) and application/suite names (440) and stored in a repository (172). Once the file names are stored in the repository (172). Once the file names are stored in the repository, the devices may be linked to the applcations and file names in the repository which are installed on the device. A software inventory module (154) at the operations center supports the association of software on devices to the central repository at the operatons center. The software inventory module also supports an assocation of sofware on devices to licenses maintained at the operations center for license compliance analysis and may disable unlicensed software on the devices.
PCT/US2001/021502 2000-07-10 2001-07-06 Method and system for software inventory management using a global central repository WO2002005184A2 (en)

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