Patents by Inventor Thomas Louis Adrian

Thomas Louis Adrian 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 system for configuration management database software license compliance
    Patent number: 8646093
    Abstract: A software license engine allows an enterprise to model software license contracts and evaluate deployment of software for compliance with the software license contracts. Deployment of software products in the enterprise is modeled in a configuration management database. The software license engine maintains a license database for connecting software license contracts with software deployment modeled by the configuration management database. Users of the software license engine may use license types that are predefined in the software license engine or may define custom license types. The software license engine may indicate compliance or non-compliance with the software license contracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony George Myers, Thomas Louis Adrian
  • Method and System for Configuration Management Database Software License Compliance
    Publication number: 20100251379
    Abstract: A software license engine allows an enterprise to model software license contracts and evaluate deployment of software for compliance with the software license contracts. Deployment of software products in the enterprise is modeled in a configuration management database. The software license engine maintains a license database for connecting software license contracts with software deployment modeled by the configuration management database. Users of the software license engine may use license types that are predefined in the software license engine or may define custom license types. The software license engine may indicate compliance or non-compliance with the software license contracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony George Myers, Thomas Louis Adrian