18348902. COMPONENT-AGNOSTIC LICENSING ENTITLEMENT SERVICE IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM (VMware, Inc.)
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COMPONENT-AGNOSTIC LICENSING ENTITLEMENT SERVICE IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM
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COMPONENT-AGNOSTIC LICENSING ENTITLEMENT SERVICE IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18348902 titled 'COMPONENT-AGNOSTIC LICENSING ENTITLEMENT SERVICE IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM
Original Abstract Submitted
An example method of configuring an entitlement service that manages entitlement of software in a virtualized computing system includes: receiving, at a plug-in of the entitlement service, software component data that specifies a component type and offerings of the component type, the offerings associated with feature sets, the entitlement service executing on a cloud platform in the virtualized computing system; storing, by the plug-in, the software component data in a database; and notifying, by the plug-in, the entitlement service to support entitlement of components of the software having the component type.
