87 results about "License control" patented technology

A digital content file including a license control mechanism controlling the licensed use of digital content and a system and method for distributing licensable digital content files and licenses. A digital content file includes a digital content, which may be executable code or data, an embedded file access control mechanism and a dynamic license database associated with the file access mechanism for storing license information used by the file access control mechanism in controlling use of the digital content. The file access control mechanism includes a license monitor and control mechanism communicating with the dynamic license database and controlling use of the digital content and a license control utility providing communications between a user system and an external system to communicate license definition information and includes a graphical user interface. License information may be stored initially in the dynamic license database or provided from an external system. The system allows the distribution of digital content files and the acquisition of licenses with seamless transaction processing through an order processing system generating an order identification and authorization for a license and a product configuration and order database containing license management databases associated with the digital content files and containing license information to be transmitted to a user system upon receipt of an order identifier. The product configuration and order database also generates a license record for each transaction.

A digital license sharing method, system and apparatus is provided for use in a digital rights management system. Usage rights in respect of digital content are transferred between content player devices or applications by associating with each player a status indication. Transfer is carried out by transmitting a request to obtain the usage rights from a player requiring usage rights to a player currently holding the rights. The transferring player sets a first status indication to indicate that it is no longer entitled to exercise the rights, and transmits a response to the requesting player to transfer the usage rights. The requesting player then sets a second status indication to indicate that it is henceforth entitled to exercise the rights. Methods and apparatus for creating transferable licenses are also provided that employ a sharable license format including a validated portion and an unvalidated portion. The validated portion, which may be, for example, digitally signed by a license issuing authority, includes characteristic information of a digital content decryption key required to access the digital content controlled by the license. The unvalidated portion includes the digital content key itself, encrypted using an encryption key associated with a player entitled to use the license.

Methods and systems for determining whether a component defined in a computer program is authorized to activate. One method can include receiving an activation authorization request from the component; accessing a license control file defining a plurality of mappings, each of the plurality of mappings associating at least one of a plurality of components defined in the computer program to at least one required license; determining if the component is associated with at least one required license based on the plurality of mappings; and providing a response to the component.

The invention provides a software license control system and a software license control equipment that control a license for a software (application program) used in a computer, that realizes to make the license control of the software efficient, to enhance reliability of the license, and to simplify control operations by users. In order to achieve the object, the system according to the invention is provided with a software execution equipment that executes the software on which a license control software is added and a software license control equipment that controls the license for the software. The system is so designed as to interchange information relating to the license for the software between the software execution equipment and the software license control equipment by means of an electronic mail.

A virtualization system supports secure, controlled execution of application programs within virtual machines. The virtual machine encapsulates a virtual hardware platform and guest operating system executable with respect to the virtual hardware platform to provide a program execution space within the virtual machine. An application program, requiring license control data to enable execution of the application program, is provided within the program execution space for execution within the virtual machine. A data store providing storage of encrypted policy control information and the license control data is provided external to the virtual machine. The data store is accessed through a virtualization system including a policy controller that is selectively responsive to a request received from the virtual machine to retrieve the license control data dependent on an evaluation of the encrypted policy control information.

A license control module manages the downloading of a software application so the software application can be executed without requiring a separate activation key. In addition, the license control module can incorporate into the software application vendor-defined user customization information to customize the software application. A client computer makes a request to download a software application, and the request is received by a server. The server incorporates licensing information into a download manager to generate a customized download manager that is specific to the download request and that is downloaded by and delivered to the client. The client executes the customized download manager, which in turn downloads the software application and associates the licensing information with the software application, altering the functionality of the application upon execution (e.g., allows it to operate or customizes it to the user, etc.).

A method and a system for managing distributed storage of digital contents are provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, generate multiple pieces of shared data based on the shared information through a secure dispatching algorithm, wherein the shared information includes a digital content and a license of the digital content. Then, store the shared data in a digital content server and register metadata of the shared data into a directory server. Furthermore, inquire the list of the hosts having the shared data at the directory server. Acquire a part of the shared data according to the host list. And then assemble the part of shared data into the shared information through a secure retrieving algorithm. Control the use of the digital content according to the license. Finally, update metadata of shared data of stored digital contents at the directory server.

A method for controlling access to a software application running on a server includes providing respective identifiers to a plurality of clients seeking to access the application on the server. A list of the identifiers of the clients who are entitled to access the application is maintained on the server. The list includes a predetermined number of slots. Upon receiving a request submitted by a given client to access the application, the server permits the given client to access the application only if the identifier assigned to the client, which is included in the request, appears on the list or if at least one of the slots on the list is available to receive the identifier.

The invention provides an enterprise software License control method implementing real-time authorization. The method includes the steps of using an SOA (service oriented architecture) for software, setting controlled quantities, such as the number of client application module concurrent users and the number of servers simultaneously published by a client service module, on a server, and binding the controlled quantities with user names and an automatically generate GUID (globally unique identifier) serial number; after a client binds the user names and the serial number with hardware information such as encryption lock (including computer CPU (central processing unit) serial number, network card serial number and hard disk drive serial number), allowing the client to acquire an encrypted License file from the server; and allowing a License control module to analyze the License file to allow for real-time control of authorization to the whole software system. According to the method, authorization of software can be controlled effectively as the client is communicated with the server in real time, whether the software runs in a virtual machine or not can be detected, and control of versions such as trial version and official version can be performed. The enterprise software License control method implementing real-time authorization is widely applicable to the field of authorization control for computer enterprise software.

The utility model relates to an electronic personal identification system used in car, and comprises an electronic driving license, a checkpoint and a remote monitoring centre, wherein the electronic driving license is arranged in the car, and comprises a driving license control unit, a radio frequency module of a radio sensor which is connected with the control unit and a programmable logic device which is connected with the control unit and used for encrypting the hardware; the checkpoint can be arranged in the urban highway and the checkpost; the radio frequency module is used for receiving the personal identification information sent from the electronic driving license and the programmable logic device is used for decrypting the cryptograph sent from the electronic driving license; a remote transferring unit is connected with the data end of a checkpoint control unit and the personal identification information sent from the electronic driving license is transferred to the remote monitoring centre by the remote transferring unit; the remote monitoring centre comprises a database management system and a remote monitoring system, wherein the car identification information is stored in the database management system. The remote monitoring system receives the information sent from the checkpoint in real time and then sends the final data back to the checkpoint.

The invention discloses a method to carry out the license management. The method comprises the following steps: a license client reports the owned license control items and the number of the corresponding resources of the client to a license server; the license server calculates the total number of the resources of each license control item according to the received license control items and the number of the corresponding resources; finally the license server allocates the resources of the license control items to the license client within the total number of the resources of each license control item. The invention also discloses the license server, the licenser client and a license management system. The application of the invention can realize the upgrade of the single computer license management to the license network smoothly for share under the premise of lower cost.

The invention discloses a cluster administrator, a cluster system as well as a cluster management method. The cluster administrator comprises a connection managing unit, a session managing unit, a load balancing control unit and a flow control unit. The connection managing unit is used to finish the connection authentication of external systems as well as the monitoring to the successful connection; the session managing unit is used to create the connection queue for the external system request information to an internal server contact and create sessions; the load balancing control unit is used to select the ID of a down-sending node under the condition that the session managing unit inquires the request of the down-sending node; the flow control unit is used to finish the license control and the overload control of the system. The invention can allocate the session management strategy according to the information type under the cluster network organizing condition.

The invention relates to a License control method that comprises applying for License approval to the application License customer end from the operation module of the application server, approval for the operation module with the License customer based on the acquired License data from License server, executing operation after operation module acquired approval from License customer end. It improves the timely effect of the License approval with reduced system loading and License approval reliability.

The invention discloses a method and system for software licensing control, wherein the method comprises the steps of: judging whether an effective software license exists in a local network terminal; if the effective software license exists in the local network terminal, controlling software licensing via the network terminal according to the license type, otherwise, controlling the software licensing via a network licensing server. Free choices of multiple licensing modes are provided for customers due to the two-stage licensing control method, in which a user is controlled by the network terminal according to the effective license and ineffective licensing is subject to immediate licensing control of the network licensing server, the operable licensing management capacity is provided for operators, the service efficiency is increased, and the problem of inconvenience caused to users in use of the single licensing mode is solved.

The invention relates to a method for the license control of a Linux operating system. The method comprises two parts, namely a self protection mechanism and a license management mechanism respectively, wherein the self protection mechanism is implemented by both a kernel layer license control self-inspection module and an application layer license communication module; and the license management mechanism is implemented through a license communication module by an application layer license control module and an application layer license distribution module. The self protection mechanism loads the license control self-inspection module into a kernel space by utilizing the loading of a Linux system kernel, and the license control self-inspection module finishes integrity inspection on the license control function of the system and performs corresponding processing according to an inspection result. By the method, the problem that the license control function of the conventional software or system is cancelled can be effectively solved, and the validity of a license file in a distribution process can be ensured by multiple encryption, so the license file is prevented from being randomly falsified. The method has universality, and can be used for realizing user license control in a Linux environment.

A method for delivery of a licensed toolset to a software publisher for creating license-managed software products is disclosed. The method comprises providing an authorization process, and implementing the authorization process for both a toolset publisher and related toolset and a software publisher and related software product, whereby the same authorization process is used to obtain respective licenses. The authorization process includes creating a first public and private key pair for the software publisher, creating a second public and private key pair for the software product, creating an authorization program for the software program, with embedded copies of the first and second public keys, and combining the software program and the authorization program, such that when the authorization program is invoked, the authorization program obtains a license for controlling the use of the software program. The license is obtained by creating a license request, encrypting the license request using the second private key, transmitting the license request to a key authority, receiving a license from the key authority with license terms, decrypting the license, and using the license terms to control the use of the software program.

The disclosed method for controlling software version upgrade comprises: submitting the software version upgrade request to the license control center; returning license file included version message; reading the license to extract version message; accordingly validating the version number, and allowing the upgrade if the verification successful. It also discloses the relative modules for controlling the software upgrade. This invention controls software upgrade well.

Methods and systems for remotely provisioning applications from the cloud in secure environments with robust license control failover options using a hierarchical server topology. Cloud-based servers provide applications and licenses to an organization's local servers, which in turn serve applications and licenses to end user devices. By synchronizing information including license and application provision information among the local and cloud-based servers, an organization's local servers can continue to serve applications and licenses when one or more of the organization's local servers fail.

This invention discloses a method and a system for realizing license management to telecom device ports including: a, a license management center loads its file into a telecom device, b, a device license control center analyzes the file and controls granting of port service based on the analysis result.

The invention relates to a License management and authentication method and a License management and authentication system for passive optical network equipment. The system comprises a License manufacturing tool for manufacturing a License file, a file transfer protocol (FTP) server which interacts with an FTP client and is used for remotely loading the License file manufactured by the License manufacturing tool to equipment, a network element License management center which checks the legality of the License file and performs concentrative management on key function items and resource items of network element equipment, a network element License control center which is interacted with the network element License management center and can control use of the function items and the resource items of the equipment according to an instruction of the network element License management center, and a service module which interacts with the network element License control center and is used for receiving control of the network element License control center and controlling the specific use of the function items or the resource items. By the License management and authentication method and the License management and authentication system, the function items or the resource items of the system can be conveniently and effectively controlled; subsequent maintenance can be controlled to be respectively charged according to the function items or the resource items; and long-time sustainable returns can be guaranteed.

A virtualization system supports secure, controlled execution of application programs within virtual machines. The virtual machine encapsulates a virtual hardware platform and guest operating system executable with respect to the virtual hardware platform to provide a program execution space within the virtual machine. An application program, requiring license control data to enable execution of the application program, is provided within the program execution space for execution within the virtual machine. A data store providing storage of encrypted policy control information and the license control data is provided external to the virtual machine. The data store is accessed through a virtualization system including a policy controller that is selectively responsive to a request received from the virtual machine to retrieve the license control data dependent on an evaluation of the encrypted policy control information.

The invention discloses a high-availability service terminal license control mode based on dynamic distribution and behavior analysis and belongs to the field of application system software license control. The control mode mainly comprises three logic components, namely a main license service, a standby license service and a license control service, wherein the main license service allocates an available number of licenses for all application cases in an enterprise and is associated with a software license purchased by a user; the standby service replaces the main license service temporarily when the main license service is unavailable so as to ensure the application system can operate normally in the restoration period of the main license service; and the license control service is arranged in each application server to control the client access to a current application case according to an access number authorized by the license. Compared with the prior art, the license control mode has the characteristics of safety, reliability, high efficiency and the like.

The invention discloses a licence control method, a system and a server. The method comprises the following steps of: getting the business amount of each business component, and calculating the sum of the licence demand of each business component according to the business amount of each business component; if the sum of the licence demand of each business component exceeds a set licence thresholdvalue, demonstrating each business component to refuse to provide services for subsequent business requests. The invention effectively uses the licence control on business equipment, thereby enablingthe business equipment to make the best of licence resources on the premise of not exceeding the licence total amount.

The embodiment of the invention provides a LICENSE control method and a device, wherein the corresponding method comprises the following steps: performing statistics on the using frequency of a LICENSE in a sampling period; accumulating the using frequency of the LICENSE in each sampling period, and acquiring the total using frequency of the LICENSE; and controlling the current using frequency of the LICENSE when the total using frequency of the LICENSE exceeds a threshold.

The invention discloses a license control method and a license control system. The license control method includes: the license control system configures a shared license value of a license shared group, wherein the license shared group comprises one or more license object systems; each license object system initiates a license authentication request to the license control system according to service operation initiated by a user; and the license control system judges whether the license authentication request of each license object system is legal or not according to the shared license value of the license shared group of each license object system and returns a license authentication result to a license object. Compared with the prior art, the license control method and the license control system achieve dynamic sharing of multiple application systems, have the advantages of security, high efficiency, separation of license consumption from management and the like, and have particularly evident advantages in a telecommunication network management system.

The invention provides a License management method and device. The method comprises the following steps that network element equipment detects a connection state of the network element equipment and a License control server; the network element equipment determines a License management mode according to the detected connection state, wherein the License management method comprises carrying out License management according to the locally input or stored License information and carrying out License management according to the obtained License information from the License control server; and the network element equipment carries out License management by using the determined License management mode. By utilizing the technical scheme provided by the invention, an effect that the network element equipment can carry out License management flexibly according to the connection condition of the network element equipment and the License control server.

The invention discloses a software function control method and system, used for control the software function. The said method includes steps: 1) according to the software function licensing information, establish the corresponding relation of software function and software function status; 2) adjust the current software function status with the corresponding relations software function status to keep consistence. The said system includes: licensing control unit, software control unit. The said licensing control unit is used to send software function authorization information in the licensing to the said software control unit, and after the software control unit receiving the said information, it establishes the corresponding relations between software function and functional status, and adjusts the current software functional status with the software functional status of the said corresponding relations to keep consistence. The invention can control software functions in a safe and convenient way.

The invention discloses a license control method and a license control system. According to the license control method, a license agent unit sends license application information to a license authorization server through a license control device, and the license authorization server verifies the identifier of the license agent unit and the identifier of a service unit. Upon successful verification, the license authorization server sends license application response information to the license agent unit through the license control device, and the license agent unit sends the license application response information to the service unit so as to enable the service unit to execute service operation according to a license identifier in a time period. As the license control device is arranged between a user terminal and the license authorization server, license request management and license authorization processing can be separated, the pressure on the license authorization server is reduced, the real-time performance and reliability of the system are improved, and repeated use of licenses is avoided.