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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIABLE TIME-BASED LICENSING

  • US 20120123917A1
  • Filed: 05/11/2011
  • Published: 05/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A software licensing system, comprising:

  • a computer including a computer readable medium and processor operating thereon;

    a chips cache which stores activated chips;

    a chips pool which stores inactive chips;

    a chips accounting manager, operable to receive license requests for software tools and to determine whether to grant the license request;

    a license manager which tracks active chips and manages activated chip check-in and checkout;

    wherein when the chips accounting manager receives a license request for a software tool the chips accounting managerdetermines whether the chips cache includes sufficient chips to access the software tool,if there are insufficient chips, checks whether inactive chips in the chip pool can be activated and added to the chips cache, andif there are sufficient chips, notifies the license manager to check out the sufficient chips from the chips cache and grant access to the software tool.

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