US 11,811,857 B1
SaaS application contract terms benchmarking in a SaaS management platform
Suresh Parameshwar, Redmond, WA (US); Mengsu Chen, Kirkland, WA (US); Ashish Aggarwal, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Shantanu Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US); and Aditya Jayan, San Ramon, CA (US)
Assigned to Productiv, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by Productiv, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/976,645.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/10 (2022.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01)
CPC H04L 67/10 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A software as a service (SaaS) management platform (SMP) implemented in a cloud resource having at least one server computer and at least one storage device, the SMP being accessible over the Internet by a plurality of customers that subscribe to the SMP, the SMP comprising:
an uploader process for receiving a plurality of contract files from customers of the SMP via an upload API of the uploader process, the plurality of contract files relate to purchases of a SaaS application;
parsing logic programmed to identify terms in the plurality of contract files;
normalization logic for assigning a normalization SKU to respective contract files based on the terms identified in said respective contract files, the normalization SKU is further assigned based on features of the SaaS application identified in the respective contract files;
a background process that generates anonymized contract data by, for each contract file, storing the terms of the contract file in association with the normalization SKU assigned to the contract file, in an anonymous manner and grouped according to the SaaS application;
a backend process that receives a request from a client device associated with a given customer of the SMP, and responsive to said request, accesses the anonymized contract data to generate a distribution of terms of the anonymized contract data, generates benchmark data identifying an approximate location of terms of the given customer's contract file within the distribution, and returns the benchmark data to the client device for rendering through a user interface.