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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mitsumasa Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 ;
Abstract
A method and system for installing a software product to computer with authorization is provided. (1) A code C is generated from registration information that designates information about software products having already been installed to a first computer and an identifier that designates the software product S on both the first and the second computer. (2) A second computer compares the code C generated by the first computer with the code C generated by the second computer. And (3) if the code C coincides with the code C , the software product S is installed to the first computer.