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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jean-Pierre Ciudad, San Francisco, CA (US);
Augustin J. Farrugia, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
David M'Raihi, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bertrand Mollinier Toublet, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gianpaolo Fasoli, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nicholas T. Sullivan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for enforcing application usage policies. As part of an application purchase transaction, the application distributor creates a unique proof of purchase receipt. This receipt can be bundled with the application and delivered to the purchaser. Each machine can maintain an authorization file that lists the users authorized to use applications on that machine. A system configured to practice the method verifies that a user is authorized to use an application on a machine based on an application proof of purchase receipt and the authorization file. If the application proof of purchase receipt and the authorization file are both valid, the system checks if the user account identifier in the receipt is contained in the authorization file. If so, the user can be considered authorized to use the application on the machine.