Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Jörg Bartholdt

Sebastian Dippl

Ludwig Andreas Mittermeier

A method for protecting a computer program product, the computer program product being configured for operation in an operating environment (e.g., a virtual operating environment), includes: detecting at least one operating parameter of the operating environment in which the computer program product is executed, the at least one operating parameter having been defined outside of the operating environment; comparing the detected at least one operating parameter to a comparison value stored for each operating parameter; and outputting a warning signal if a plurality of comparison results exceeds a predetermined threshold value, wherein the comparison results indicate an execution of the computer program product in a different operating environment.

Method for protecting a computer program product, computer program product and computer-readable storage medium

The present invention discloses a cloud computing infrastructure having a rights management device, which is designed to manage operating rights for at least one application which can be executed in the cloud computing infrastructure for the purpose of controlling the operation of the at least one application in the cloud computing infrastructure, to evaluate the managed operating rights with respect to execution of the at least one application and to output an execution enable on the basis of the evaluation of the operating rights, and having an execution device which is designed to execute the at least one application in the cloud computing infrastructure on the basis of the output execution enable. The present invention also discloses a method for operating at least one application in a cloud computing infrastructure and an application for execution in a cloud computing infrastructure.

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Munich, Germany

Jörg Bartholdt