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System and method for software licensing

  • US 7,171,662 B1
  • Filed: 11/28/2000
  • Issued: 01/30/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method for distributing software licenses to clients so that the clients may legally execute underlying software to which the software licenses pertains, the computer-implemented method comprising electronically issuing the software licenses as digital certificates that are distributed in one-to-one correlation with individual clients and traced to an issuing authority, and issuing a software license to a particular client only if a client executable image received from the particular client matches a stored client executable image for the particular client.

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