US 11,811,858 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. 17/976,675.
Application 17/976,675 is a continuation of application No. 17/976,645, filed on Oct. 28, 2022.
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 method implemented in 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 method comprising:
receiving a plurality of contract files from customers of the SMP via an upload API of the SMP, the plurality of contract files relate to purchases of a SaaS application;
identifying terms in the plurality of contract files by a parsing logic of the SMP;
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;
generating 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;
receiving a request from a client device associated with a given customer of the SMP, and responsive to said request, accessing the anonymized contract data to generate a distribution of terms of the anonymized contract data, generating benchmark data identifying an approximate location of terms of the given customer's contract file within the distribution, and returning the benchmark data to the client device for rendering through a user interface.