Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Business processing using cryptography – Usage protection of distributed data files
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-25
2005-10-25
Dixon, Thomas A. (Department: 3629)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Business processing using cryptography
Usage protection of distributed data files
C718S100000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06959291
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus, program product and method track concurrent uses of a computer program across a plurality of logical partitions in a logically partitioned computer, such that a decision as to whether to grant or deny a request to use the computer program in a particular logical partition may be made based upon whether the requested use, coupled with other uses in other logical partitions in the computer, would violate a concurrent use software license associated with the computer program. As such, the license restrictions of a concurrent use software license can be enforced on a logically partitioned computer regardless of the particular logical partitions within which a computer program executes.
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Armstrong William Joseph
Nayar Naresh
Stamschror Kevin Patrick
Dixon Thomas A.
Wood Herron & Evans
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