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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1997
Nicholas Huston Franklin, Lehi, UT (US);
Bill Guy Bodine, Orem, UT (US);
Randall R Cook, Springville, UT (US);
Calvin R Gaisford, Provo, UT (US);
Matthew G Brooks, Orem, UT (US);
Carla M Heesch, Spring Lake, UT (US);
Kelly E Sonderegger, Santaquin, UT (US);
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
A directory services system includes a resource object, such as an application object for accessing a resource associated with the resource object. Attributes of the resource object contain licensing control information. The licensing attributes may be used by executables to control access by a user to properly licensed instances of a resource corresponding to the resource object. Also, a utility may be provided to manage the licensing attributes in the resource object. A licensing function may thus control a resource, via its resource object in the directory services database. Licensing maybe easily implemented by setting a new disabling attribute in the object.