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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2020
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0731 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2117 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01);
Abstract
A license management system subtracts, a number of rights corresponding to a number of users set by a number of users setter from a number of owned rights for each unit period, and uses a first unit period that is an earliest unit period, in which the number of owned rights is expected to be insufficient with respect to a number of rights in a unit period, as a last unit period, in which content can be used by a plurality of users, to set same expiration of a valid period for all of the plurality of users.