Patents by Inventor Olaf Grimm

Olaf Grimm has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and arrangement for managing licenses
    Patent number: 7849019
    Abstract: The number of releasable licenses is registered in a first entity, the resource to be used being attributed and/or having withdrawn from it, by a second entity, a releasable license for use which is registered in the second entity and/or a license. In a synchronization step the difference between the number of licenses allocated for use since a previous synchronization step and the licenses released again in this time is repeatedly reported from the second entities to the first entity respectively, this difference being taken as a basis for reducing or increasing the number of releasable licenses registered in the first entity, and conversely the resultant number of releasable licenses is reported from the first entity to the second entity and is registered there as the number of releasable licenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Olaf Grimm, Thomas Hanna, Michael Karrengarn
  • Method and arrangement for managing licenses
    Publication number: 20080082450
    Abstract: The number of releasable licenses is registered in a first entity, the resource to be used being attributed and/or having withdrawn from it, by a second entity, a releasable license for use which is registered in the second entity and/or a license. In a synchronization step the difference between the number of licenses allocated for use since a previous synchronization step and the licenses released again in this time is repeatedly reported from the second entities to the first entity respectively, this difference being taken as a basis for reducing or increasing the number of releasable licenses registered in the first entity, and conversely the resultant number of releasable licenses is reported from the first entity to the second entity and is registered there as the number of releasable licenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Olaf Grimm, Thomas Hanna, Michael Karrengarn