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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Infocus Corporation, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Stanislav Angelov, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Robert Gardyne, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
INFOCUS CORPORATION, Portland, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0773 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of licensing software to a particular instance of a virtual machine that is being run as part of an Active Directory domain. Since a virtual machine is a simulation of a physical machine, i.e. a computer, it can easily be cloned to produce an exact duplicate. This poses a problem when it is desired to license an instance of software for use only on a particular virtual machine. The technology disclosed allows for software to be licensed for execution only on a particular instance of a virtual machine that is being run as part of an Active Directory domain.