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Securing leased resources on a computer

  • US 7,707,290 B2
  • Filed: 05/08/2006
  • Issued: 04/27/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for securing leased resources on a computer, comprising:

  • receiving a request from a requestor for configuration data of a resource of the computer;

    determining whether the resource is leased and whether the resource is enabled;

    reading un-encoded configuration data from the resource and sending the un-encoded configuration data to the requestor, if the resource is not leased; and

    reading encoded configuration data from the resource, decoding the encoded configuration data, sending the decoded configuration data to the requestor and logging use of the resource by the requestor, if the resource is leased and enabled.

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