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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2016
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Piotr A. Ciszewski, Kirkland, WA (US);

Tianyu Xie, Redmond, WA (US);

Richard Moloney, Redmond, WA (US);

Robert Donner, Bellevue, WA (US);

Zhengyu Li, Richmond, VA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06Q 50/184 (2013.01); G06F 2221/07 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0704 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0773 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance licensing in multi-user computing environments. In an implementation, for each user of a plurality of users engaged with an application installed in a multi-user computing environment, a user-specific license state is maintained for the user with respect to the application. In addition, for each of the plurality of users engaged with the application installed in the multi-user computing environment, the application is delivered in accordance with the user-specific license state for the user.


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