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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Geoffrey Edward Pease, Bothell, WA (US);
Daniel Christopher Rodgers, Duvall, WA (US);
Jesse Daniel Kaplan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Madhusri Nayak, Sammamish, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing digital content for an application to users. For example, systems described herein can provide a license for the digital content during a rental time. Systems disclosed herein may additionally track a duration of use of an application and compare the tracked use against an amount of rental time purchased (e.g., rented) by a user. The systems described herein may further extend a license or terminate the license based on a determination of whether the amount of use exceeds a rental time. Features and functionality described herein provide a flexible and efficient mechanism that enables users having a variety of content-consuming preferences to receive affordable content while ensuring that use of an application is efficiently and accurately tracked.