On-demand service method for software license in cloud computing platform

Abstract

The invention relates to an on-demand service method for a software license in a cloud computing platform. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of generating the software license for the cloud computing platform and using the cloud computing platform by users. As the number of software modules and licenses is not limited, as long as hardware resources are enough, application software and the license resources thereof can timely meet the requirements regardless of the number of the users simultaneously using the software modules and the licenses. According to the method, at the peak usage time of a large number of users, the requirements of the users can be met timely, the user service quality is effectively improved, the response time for application is shortened, and the capacity of the users is increased; and when the users do not use the application software, software usage records and software expense can be avoided, so that user expense waste can be avoided at the trough usage time of the users. The on-demand service method for the software license in the cloud computing platform more reasonably makes use of the application software and the license thereof, and fulfills the aims of fully sharing the application software in the cloud computing platform and improving the software value.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a software license service method, in particular to an application software license on-demand service method applied in a "cloud computing" platform. Background technique [0002] The "cloud computing" platform is aggregated by a group of interconnected physical or virtualized servers, and provides users with on-demand services based on the network (such as the Internet). It dynamically and scalable aggregates a large number of resources and services, including computing resources, storage resources, application software resources, etc., and provides them to users in the form of "commercialized" services. Users no longer need to purchase and maintain hardware resources and software resources by themselves, and only need to pay for each use on the "cloud computing" platform, thereby realizing "computing on demand" services. [0003] Scientific and engineering computing applications usually require the support of application sof...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] (1) If the application software licenses bound to the machine are sold according to the number of servers, CPUs, users or clients, on the one hand, due to the dynamic scalability of the "cloud computing" platform, the number is difficult to determine; on the other hand On the one hand, due to the aggregation of a large number of computing resources, the cost of its application software will inevitably increase significantly, which is unbearable for operators or users of the "cloud computing" platform.

(2) If only a certain number of software licenses are purchased, the number of users of the "cloud computing" platform is often huge and dynamic. Under the premise that the number of licenses is limited, on the one hand, the challenge exists in the peak usage period of users, and the application Software licenses cannot meet the needs of a large number of users, resulting in user applications needing to wait, or even unsatisfied for a long time; on the other hand, during the low period of user use, there will be idle application software license resources, that is, resource waste

However, the "cloud computing" platform has a large number of dynamic users, and it is obviously inconvenient to issue a license for each use

The resources and time used by different applications are often different, and it is not reasonable to charge only by the number of times used

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