Mechanisms for handling software license agreements on multi-user system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7222106
APP PUB NO 20030220883A1
SERIAL NO

10152664

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A method, a data structure, a computer program product and a computer-readable medium for handling license agreements for multiple software packages in a computer system, each software package being identified by a unique package ID and comprising one or more components. One embodiment provides a method comprising: providing a plurality of document files, each document file comprising one or more text elements; providing a plurality of manifest files, each manifest file indicating at least one corresponding document file of the plurality of document files and comprising a unique package ID designating a corresponding software package; extracting a specific unique package ID from a specific software package; determining a corresponding manifest file from the plurality of manifest files on the basis of the extracted unique package ID; determining the at least one corresponding document file of the plurality of document files on the basis of the determined corresponding manifest file; and combining the one or more text elements comprised in the at least one determined corresponding document file to build a license agreement for the specific software package.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Block, Jeffrey Alan Rochester, MN 1 40
Chaney, Bonita Kay Mantorville, MN 1 40
Ewert, Clair L Rochester, MN 2 161
Padzieski, Robert Joseph Rochester, MN 2 41

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