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Programming interface for licensing

  • US 20050091168A1
  • Filed: 10/24/2003
  • Published: 04/28/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for supporting the enforcement of a license for a computer program, the system comprising:

  • a licensing component that maintains a license store in which the license is stored, the license comprising a right in the software and a set of data associated with said right, the licensing component exposing a callable interface to the computer program, said callable interface comprising;

    a right-consumption method which receives an identifier of said right from the computer program and determines whether the right can be exercised; and

    an information-retrieval method which receives an identifier of said right from the computer program and provides said set of data, or information based on said set of data, to the computer program.

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