Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Patent
1995-09-06
1998-04-28
Weinhardt, Robert A.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
705 8, 380 4, G06F 1760
Patent
active
057458790
ABSTRACT:
A distributed computer system employs a license management system to account for software product usage. A management policy having a variety of alternative styles and contexts is provided. Each licensed program upon start-up makes a call to a license server to check on whether usage is permitted, and the license server checks a database of the licenses, called product use authorizations, that it administers. If the particular use requested is permitted, a grant is returned to the requesting user node. The product use authorization is structured to define a license management policy allowing a variety of license alternatives by values called "style", "context", "duration" and "usage requirements determination method". The license administration may be delegated by the license server to a subsection of the organization, by creating another license management facility duplicating the main facility. The license server must receive a license document (a product use authorization) from an issuer of licenses, where a license document generator is provided. A mechanism is provided for one user node to make a call to use a software product located on another user node; this is referred to as a "calling card", by which a user node obtains permission to make a procedure call to use a program on another node.
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Digital Equipment Corporation
Fisher Arthur W.
Saturnelli Anne E.
Weinhardt Robert A.
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