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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2018
Secure Thingz Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Haydn Povey, Cambridge, GB;
Steve Pancoast, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Mike Moreton, Cambridge, GB;
Timothy John Woodruff, Cambridge, GB;
SECURE THINGZ LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A method of enabling program code stored on target data processing devices, the method comprising: receiving an in encrypted value of a permitted number of target data processing devices that are permitted to have program code stored on them enabled, and using a security data processing device to decrypt the encrypted value and store the decrypted value on the security data processing device; and for each target data processing device, using the security data processing device to: determine whether the value of the permitted number of target data processing devices is greater than zero; if so, obtain a device identifier from the target data processing device; generate a license key from the device identifier; store the license key on the target data processing device; and decrement the value of the permitted number of target data processing devices.