Cryptography – Key management – Having particular key generator
Patent
1996-10-01
1998-05-19
DeCady, Albert
Cryptography
Key management
Having particular key generator
380 4, H04L 900
Patent
active
057547637
ABSTRACT:
A large distributed enterprise includes computing resources that are organized into one or more managed regions, each region being managed by a management server servicing one or more gateway machines, with each gateway machine servicing a plurality of endpoint machines. A method of auditing software usage in the environment begins by deriving a count of a number of simultaneous method invocations of one or more application programs that occur in response to a system management task. The count is then used to determine whether an authorized number of copies of each application program within the managed region has been exceeded. This protocol obviates a dedicated licensing server.
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De'cady Albert
International Business Machines - Corporation
Judson David H.
LaBaw Jeffrey S.
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