Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Carlos Peza Ramirez

Harold E Beyel, Iii

Vlad Riscutia

Juhi Bagrodia

Robert D Donner

Amit Jain

Chase Thomas

Sinduja Ramanujam

Axel Alejandro Gutierrez Olivo

Andrei Scripniciuc

Technology is disclosed herein for license aggregation in a license data structure. In at least one implementation, program instructions stored on one or more computer readable storage media, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least, responsive to a launch of an application, create a license file request comprising a plurality of user identifications (IDs) and send the license file request to a licensing service. The processing system is further directed to obtain a single license file for the application from the licensing service, the license file comprising a user license defining features of the application to be enabled based on licenses pertaining to the plurality of user IDs. The processing system is further directed to enable the plurality of features of the application based on the user license, and initiate presentation of the application in accordance with the enabled plurality of features.

License data structure including license aggregation

Technology is disclosed herein for a timestamped license data structure. In at least one implementation, program instructions stored on one or more computer readable storage media, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least, responsive to a launch of an application, obtain a license file for the application, the license file comprising a license data structure comprising: a user license; a licensing service signature; a licensing service public key; and a trusted timestamp package. The processing system is also directed to analyze the license data structure using the trusted timestamp package to determine if the licensing service public key was valid when the user license was signed by the licensing service signature if the licensing service public key is invalid. If the licensing service public key was valid when the user license was signed by the licensing service signature: enable features of the application.

Timestamped license data structure

A system activates an application on a computing device based on a prior activation of an isolated counterpart application on the computing device. An application that is restricted from sharing a license with a counterpart application locally on the computing device is enabled to instead communicate with an application license manager to manage license data corresponding to the counterpart application. For example, when a license is obtained at the computing device for a container application, the application license manager may update license data in association with a native application so that a counterpart license can be obtained automatically by the native application, and vice versa. Thus, once a user has responded to an activation prompt for either one of the container application or the native application, whichever application the user has not manually activated will be automatically activated at the computing device based on communications with the application license manager.

Activation of an application based on prior activation of an isolated counterpart application

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