JP5909347B2 - Purchase software license automatic calculation system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention is an optimal purchase that can be purchased by a purchaser according to purchase conditions set for a plurality of license types for a license that is an actual purchase form of a software product and a purchase quantity specified by an operation input instruction. The present invention relates to a purchased software license automatic calculation system having a computer function for automatically calculating a license.

  In recent years, license types of software products have been diversified, and it is difficult for a purchaser to purchase an optimal license without understanding the diversified license types in detail. In addition, it is necessary to monitor the unauthorized use of complex licenses after purchase. Therefore, recently, there is an increasing tendency to introduce a system for preventing unauthorized use of a license after purchase. In such a system, a license fraud check is performed after a purchase burden is imposed.

  However, under these circumstances, only the profits of the license provider are protected, and the profits of the user side (buyer side) are not taken into consideration, and the users can fully enjoy the benefits of diversified license types. In the future, it is assumed that it will be necessary to develop a system that automatically determines an appropriate license at the time of software purchase, considering the viewpoint of securing profits on the user side.

  Incidentally, as a well-known technique related to the above-described system for purchasing software licenses, for example, when purchasing a plurality of software licenses in an organization, the required number of purchases can be reduced to a minimum and the cost can be reduced. Thus, there is a “software license system” (see Patent Document 1) for calculating the purchase.

JP 2009-211144 A

  The technology according to Patent Document 1 described above can purchase software licenses that can suppress unnecessary purchases and reduce costs by calculating the number of purchased licenses based on information on the license quantity and purchase period on the purchase side. Although it is not possible to manage the diversified license types or check the purchase conditions for each license type, it is not possible to check the criteria set by the software manufacturer for each license type. As a result, there is a problem in that an optimal purchase license cannot be automatically calculated from the purchase condition of the license type and the license information already owned.

  The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and its technical problem is to automatically calculate an optimum purchase license from the purchase conditions of the license type and the license information already owned. It is to provide a purchased software license automatic calculation system.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the first means of the present invention is the purchase quantity designated by the purchase conditions and operation input instructions set for a plurality of license types for the license that is the actual purchase form of the software product. Purchase software license automatic calculation system with a computer function that automatically calculates the optimal purchase license that can be purchased by the purchaser according to the purchase information that stores and manages past purchase history as purchase information and data storage means, and software license data storage means for managing to save the name and price of the software license of the data, and owned license data storage means storing and managing ownership license of the buyer, the information of the software maker Manufacturer information data storage means for storing and managing License type data storage means for storing and managing purchase conditions for each service type, customer information data storage means for storing and managing customer name and number of users as customer information, and on the display screen of the attached display device The purchase request information obtained by registering the software product and purchase quantity purchased by the purchaser based on the purchase request screen displayed on the screen is input, and in response to an input operation instruction in the attached operation input unit A license calculating means for automatically calculating an optimal purchase license that can be purchased by the purchaser when indicating the continuation of the purchase procedure after the confirmation of the owned license managed by the owned license data storage means for the purchase request information ; includes a license calculation means managed by purchase information data storage means included in the purchase request information registered from the purchase request screen purchasing Purchase information, including gravel, purchase conditions, which is managed by the license type data storage means, the number of owned licenses that are managed in the ownership license data storage means, as well as from the price of the data of the software licenses that are managed by the software license data storage means The license type that can be purchased is determined, and the purchase price for each license type that can be purchased is such that the number of purchased licenses is less than or equal to the required purchase unit, the number of owned licenses is greater than or equal to the required owned unit, and When the total number of licenses and the number of owned licenses is equal to or greater than the required total number and the latest purchase period is within the required purchase period, it is calculated based on the purchase information and the name of the software license data. Information on the results of automatic selection of the optimal purchase license It displays on the said display screen as an estimation result screen, It is characterized by the above-mentioned.

  According to a second means of the present invention, in the first means, the license calculation means obtains a price from the software license data storage means for all license types determined to be purchaseable at the time of calculating the optimum purchase license. After calculating and comparing the results of the price calculation, the cheapest license is displayed as the optimal purchase license on the estimate result screen, and other licenses are displayed in ascending price order. Purchase history in the purchase information data storage means and ownership license in the owned license data storage means after the input operation instruction in the operation input section indicating the completion of the purchase procedure after confirming the price difference for the licenses that can be purchased including the various purchase licenses And updating the data.

  According to a third means of the present invention, in the first means or the second means, the ownership license in the possession license data storage means is used in order to prevent over-purchase to the purchaser according to a predetermined input operation instruction in the operation input unit. The data can be confirmed in advance on the display screen.

  According to the purchased software license automatic calculation system of the present invention, the optimum purchase license is automatically determined based on the purchase conditions of all licenses provided by the software manufacturer, as well as information on the license quantity and purchase period on the purchase side. The purchaser can select the optimal purchase license even in the license system that is calculated and expected to be added or renewed in the future, so the optimal purchase from the purchase conditions of the license type and license information already owned A function for automatically calculating a license is obtained. As a result, software purchasers understand the purchase conditions for each license type set by the software manufacturer in detail and do not need to compare prices for each type. This makes it possible to improve the efficiency of purchase procedures, prevent erroneous purchases, and reduce purchase prices, prevent unauthorized license purchases for software manufacturers, and reduce damage caused by license violations.

It is the block diagram which showed the basic composition of the purchased software license automatic calculation system which concerns on Example 1 of this invention. It is the figure which illustrated the data content of the purchase information database of the table format structure with which the purchase software license automatic calculation system shown in FIG. 1 is equipped. It is the figure which illustrated the data content of the software license database of the table format structure with which the purchased software license automatic calculation system shown in FIG. 1 is equipped. It is the figure which illustrated the data content of the possession license database of the table format structure with which the purchased software license automatic calculation system shown in FIG. 1 is equipped. It is the figure which illustrated the data content of the maker information database of the table format structure with which the purchased software license automatic calculation system shown in FIG. 1 is equipped. It is the figure which illustrated the data content of the license classification database of the table format structure with which the purchased software license automatic calculation system shown in FIG. 1 is equipped. It is the figure which illustrated the data content of the customer information database of the table format structure with which the purchased software license automatic calculation system shown in FIG. 1 is equipped. 2 is a flowchart showing an outline of operation processing related to license calculation of the entire purchased software license automatic calculation system shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating details of a purchase possibility determination process included in the operation process described in FIG. 8. FIG. FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram specifically illustrating on a display screen a flow of a processing procedure of automatic calculation of a software purchase license by an operation process related to license calculation described in FIG. 8;

  Hereinafter, the purchased software license automatic calculation system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of a purchased software license automatic calculation system 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. This purchased software license automatic calculation system 1 is for the purchaser in accordance with the purchase conditions set for a plurality of license types for the license that is the actual purchase form of the software product and the purchase quantity specified by the operation input instruction. It has a computer function that automatically calculates an optimal purchase license that can be purchased. As is well known, the computer function includes a simplified CPU, a storage device such as a main memory and an auxiliary storage unit (HDD), and an input / output operation device such as a display device and a keyboard / mouse. Is done.

  More specifically, the automatic software license calculation system 1 includes a purchase information database 3 which is a purchase information data storage means for storing and managing past purchase history as purchase information as various databases, a software license name and Software license database 6 as software license data storage means for storing and managing prices, ownership license database 4 as ownership license data storage means for storing and managing purchaser licenses, and software manufacturer information Manufacturer information database 7 which is a manufacturer information data storage means to be managed, license type database 5 which is a license type data storage means to store and manage purchase conditions for each license type, and customer name as customer information And a customer information database 8 which is a customer information data storage means for storing and managing the number of users, and the purchaser is based on the purchase request screen 9 displayed on the display screen of the attached display device. The purchase request data obtained by registering the software product to be purchased and the purchase quantity is input, and the ownership managed in the possession license database 4 for the purchase request data in accordance with the input operation instruction in the attached operation input unit The system includes a license calculation function unit 2 that is a license calculation unit that automatically calculates an optimal purchase license that can be purchased by the purchaser when the purchase procedure is continued after the license is confirmed.

  Among these, the license calculation function unit 2 purchase information including purchase history managed by the purchase information database 3 included in the purchase request data registered from the purchase request screen 9, purchase conditions managed by the license type database 5, The license type that can be purchased is determined from the number of owned licenses managed in the license database 4 and the price managed in the software license database 6, and the result of calculating the price and automatically selecting the optimal purchase license is displayed. An estimate result screen 10 is displayed on the screen.

  In addition, the license calculation function unit 2 obtains prices from the software license database 6 for all license types determined to be available for purchase at the time of calculating the optimum purchase license, calculates the price, and compares the price calculation results before estimating the price. On the result screen 10, the cheapest license is displayed as the optimal purchase license, the other licenses are displayed in ascending price order, and the price difference of the purchaseable license including the optimal purchase license by the purchaser is displayed. After the input operation instruction at the operation input unit indicating the completion of the purchase procedure after confirmation, the data of the purchase history in the purchase information database 3 and the owned license in the owned license database 4 are updated. In the purchased software license automatic calculation system 1 according to the first embodiment, the proprietary license database 4 is used in accordance with a predetermined input operation instruction at the operation input unit for preventing over-purchase to the purchaser by a CPU data display process or the like. It has a function that allows you to check in advance the license data of the license on the display screen.

  With such a function, the purchaser of the software product can purchase an optimal license and can confirm the number of owned licenses owned.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating data contents of the purchase information database 3 having a table format configuration. The purchase information database 3 has a customer code, a license code, a purchase quantity, a purchase date (purchase history), and the like as item names, and specific data thereof can be identified for each item.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating data contents of the software license database 6 having a table format configuration. The software license database 6 has, as item names, software code, license code, software name, license name, license type code, price, manufacturer code, and specific data can be identified for each item. It has become.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating data contents of the owned license database 4 having a table format configuration. The possessed license database 4 has, as item names, a customer code, a license code, a holding number, and a purchase date, and specific data thereof can be identified for each item.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating data contents of the manufacturer information database 7 having a table format configuration. The manufacturer information database 7 has a manufacturer code, a manufacturer name, and a description as item names, and specific data thereof can be identified for each item (however, the data in the description column is blank in FIG. 5). State).

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating data contents of the license type database 5 having a table format configuration. The license type database 5 has, as item names, a license type code, a license type name, a required purchase unit, a required ownership unit, a required total number, and a required purchase period, and specific data thereof is identified for each item. It can be done.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating data contents of the customer information database 8 having a table format configuration. The customer information database 8 has a customer code, a customer name, the number of application users, the number of application PCs, a location, and contact information as item names, and specific data can be identified for each item. ing.

  Hereinafter, an operation process related to license calculation of the purchased software license automatic calculation system 1 according to such various databases will be described.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an outline of operation processing related to license calculation of the entire purchased software license automatic calculation system 1 according to the first embodiment.

  In the operation processing related to license calculation, first, the system operator performs user registration (step S1) for registering a user (customer) at the initial use, and the number of owned PCs, the number of PC users, purchaser information (company) User information such as name and contact information is registered in the customer information database (DB) 8.

  Next, after registering the software (product) purchased by the user at the time of software purchase and the purchase request information for registering the quantity (step S2), with respect to the software to be purchased with reference to the owned license database 4, the existing license The owned license is confirmed (step S3) by calculating and displaying the number.

  Furthermore, the user confirms the possessed license through the purchase request screen 9 on the display screen, and determines whether or not to continue the purchase when the purchase is possible. For the license type, the purchased license type determination (step S4) is repeatedly determined for the undetermined license. Here, in order to continue the purchase, an input operation instruction is given by the attached operation input unit, and the purchase procedure is continued after confirming the owned license managed in the owned license database 4 for the purchase request data on the purchase request screen 9. Indicates that it will be implemented.

  Subsequently, the license type that can be purchased is determined, and the purchase possible determination process (step S5) is performed. In this purchase possibility determination process (step S5), the license type that can be purchased this time is calculated from the purchase information of the purchase request data on the purchase request screen 9 and the data of the license type database (DB) 5 and the software license database (DB) 6. The purchase price is calculated for each license type that can be purchased.

  Thereafter, the purchase license type is determined again (step S6), and it is determined whether or not there is no undetermined license type. If there is an undetermined license type, the process returns to the previous purchase license type determination (step S4). However, if there is no undetermined license type, the purchase price comparison process (step S7) is executed for the license type determined to be available for purchase, and the purchase price is compared, in ascending order (price increasing order). The license is displayed as an estimation result screen 10 on the display screen.

  Further, when the purchase is confirmed from the license type, the purchase information confirmed to be purchased is registered in the purchase information database (DB) 3 to perform the purchase registration of the purchase information (step S8), and then the owned license database ( DB) 4 and the purchase information database (DB) 3 are used to calculate the number of owned licenses after purchase, update the owned license database (DB) 4 and update the owned license (step S9). Exit. In this case, the purchase information is confirmed and registered (step S8) and the owned license is updated (step S9) by checking the price difference for the purchaseable license including the optimum purchase license by the user (purchaser). This is performed after an input operation instruction in the operation input unit indicating completion of the procedure. In the updating of the owned license (step S9), the purchase history included in the purchase information in the purchase information database (DB) 3 may be updated at the same time.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing details of the purchase possibility determination process (step S5) included in the operation process described with reference to FIG.

  In the details of the purchase possibility determination process (step S5), first, the license type to be purchased this time is calculated from the purchase request information which is the purchase request data registered on the purchase request screen 9 and the data of the license type database (DB) 5. After performing the purchased license type calculation process (step S50), the purchase license number (amount) requested for purchase this time by comparing the purchase request license quantity with the required purchase unit of the target license type for the calculated license type. ) Is a required purchase unit determination (step S51) for determining whether or not it is equal to or less than the required purchase unit. At this time, the necessary purchase unit of the target license type is acquired from the license type database (DB) 5.

  If the number of purchase licenses (amount) is not less than or equal to the required purchase unit as a result of this determination (if the required purchase unit is exceeded), the process proceeds to the end of the determination process (step S56). If it is less than the unit (purchasable), a necessary holding unit determination (step S52) is performed to determine whether or not the number (amount) of customer-owned licenses of the software requested for purchase this time is equal to or greater than the necessary owned unit. At this time, the owned license quantity of the customer is acquired from the owned license database (DB) 4.

  As a result of this determination, if the number (amount) of customer-owned licenses is not equal to or greater than the required ownership unit (less than the required unit of ownership), the process proceeds to the determination process end (step S56). If it is equal to or greater than the required ownership unit, a required total number determination (step S53) is performed to determine whether or not the sum of the purchase quantity of the software requested this time and the owned license quantity is equal to or greater than the required total number. At this time, the owned license quantity of the customer is obtained from the owned license database (DB) 4, and the necessary total unit of the target license type is obtained from the license type database (DB) 5.

  As a result of this determination, if the total is not equal to or greater than the necessary total (if it is less than the necessary total), the process proceeds to the determination processing (step S56). The necessary purchase period determination (step S54) is performed to determine whether or not the latest purchase period indicating the period from the previous purchase date of the software is within the necessary purchase period. At this time, the latest purchase history is acquired from the purchase information database (DB) 3, and the necessary purchase period of the target license type is acquired from the license type database (DB) 5.

  As a result of the determination, if the latest purchase period is not within the necessary purchase period (if it is outside the necessary purchase period), the process proceeds to the determination process (step S56). If the latest purchase period is within the necessary purchase period, A price calculation process (step S55) is performed to calculate the purchase price of this license type based on the purchase information and data in the software license database (DB) 6.

  FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram specifically illustrating on the display screen the flow of the processing procedure of the automatic calculation of the software purchase license by the operation processing related to the license calculation described in FIG.

  Referring to FIG. 10, in the case of the display screen D1, as the purchase request information (purchase request data), for example, the company name is ◎ ◎ trading and the software name ◎ ◎ security software is purchased on the purchase date 2011/8. / 8 shows a state where the request registration for 100 purchases with the purchase request quantity is performed.

  In addition, in the case of the display screen D2, the result of confirming the license type of the security software in the license type database (DB) 5 is the result of the security determination target license (normal license, additional license, value back license, corporate) License).

  Further, in the case of the display screen D3, as a result of the determination that the purchase determination is performed for each license type in such a case, “required purchase unit for normal license: 1 <request quantity: 100 and can be purchased, for additional use Regarding the license, it can be purchased within one year from the previous purchase date: 2011/4/23. For the value back license, the required purchase unit: 100 ≧ the requested quantity: 100 and can be purchased. For the corporate license, the required total number : 1000> Purchase quantity: 100 and purchase is not possible ”.

  In addition, in the case of the display screen D4, for example, as the purchaseable information for displaying the result of price comparison in the license determined to be available for purchase in this case, the lowest value is ◎◎ Security Value Back (license) ¥ 860,000 Others are ◎◎ Additional security (license) ¥ 960,000, ◎◎ Security (license) ¥ 110,000, showing that there is a license that can be purchased at a lower cost than when making a purchase request. ing.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Purchase software license automatic calculation system 2 License calculation function part 3 Purchase information database 4 Owned license database 5 License classification database 6 Software license database 7 Manufacturer information database 8 Customer information database 9 Purchase request screen 10 Estimate result screen

Claims (3)

The optimal purchase license that can be purchased by the purchaser is automatically selected according to the purchase conditions set for multiple license types for the license that is the actual purchase form of the software product and the purchase quantity specified by the operation input instruction. A software license automatic calculation system with a computer function to calculate
And purchase information data storage means for managing to save the past purchase history as purchase information, and software license data storage means for managing to save the name and price of the software license of the data, to save the ownership license of buyers Owned license data storage means for managing the data, maker information data storage means for storing and managing software manufacturer information, license type data storage means for storing and managing purchase conditions for each license type, and customer information Customer information data storage means for storing and managing the customer name and the number of users, the software product purchased by the purchaser based on the purchase request screen displayed on the display screen of the attached display device, and the purchase quantity together with the purchase request information obtained by registering bets are input, attached to the operation input unit The possible the best purchase licenses purchased for the purchaser when indicating the continuation of the purchase after confirmation of the owner license managed by the own license data storage means with respect to the purchase request information in response to an input operation instruction A license calculation means for automatically calculating,
The license calculation means includes the purchase information including the purchase history managed by the purchase information data storage means included in the purchase request information registered from the purchase request screen, and the license information managed by the license type data storage means. purchase conditions, the number of the own license managed by the own license data storage means, and determines the license type available from the price data of the software licenses are managed by the software licensing data storage means, buy The purchase price for each possible license type is that the number of purchased licenses is less than or equal to the required purchase unit, the number of owned licenses is greater than or equal to the required owned unit, and the total number of purchased licenses and owned licenses is More than the required total number of retentions and the latest purchase period is the required purchase period Inner the purchase information and estimated results purchasable information of the software license is calculated on the basis of the name of the data results of the automatic selection of the optimal purchase licenses above on the display screen when conditions are satisfied is A purchased software license automatic calculation system characterized by being displayed as a screen.   2. The purchased software license automatic calculation system according to claim 1, wherein the license calculation unit acquires the price from the software license data storage unit for all license types determined to be purchaseable when calculating the optimum purchase license. After calculating the price and comparing the results of the price calculation, the cheapest license is displayed as the optimum purchase license on the estimate result screen, and other licenses are displayed in ascending price order. The purchase history in the purchase information data storage means after the input operation instruction in the operation input unit indicating the completion of the purchase procedure by confirming the price difference for the purchaseable license including the optimal purchase license by the user The possession in the possession license data storage means Purchase software license automatic calculation system and updates the data of the license.   3. The purchased software license automatic calculation system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein, for the purpose of preventing excessive purchase for the purchaser, the owned license data storage means stores the owned license according to a predetermined input operation instruction in the operation input unit. A purchased software license automatic calculation system characterized in that data can be confirmed in advance on the display screen.

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