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System and method for extracting device uniqueness to assign a license to the device

  • US 10,430,562 B2
  • Filed: 03/22/2017
  • Issued: 10/01/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information handling system, comprising:

  • a hardware processor; and

    a memory device storing instructions that when executed cause the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations including;

    receiving a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) identifier sent by a device connected to a peripheral component interconnect bus;

    querying a PCI-based licensing manager for the peripheral component interconnect identifier, the PCI-based licensing manager having a datastore that electronically associates licenses to the peripheral component interconnect identifiers;

    determining that the device connected to the peripheral component interconnect bus is unlicensed in response to the PCI-based licensing manager failing to electronically associate the peripheral component interconnect identifier to any of the licenses in the datastore; and

    licensing the device connected to the peripheral component interconnect bus in response to the determining that the device is unlicensed.

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