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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:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2005
Alexander Frank, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bohdan Raciborski, Redmond, WA (US);
James S. Duffus, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey A. Herold, Bothell, WA (US);
Martin H. Hall, Sammamish, WA (US);
Paul C. Sutton, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas G. Phillips, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexander Frank, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bohdan Raciborski, Redmond, WA (US);
James S. Duffus, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey A. Herold, Bothell, WA (US);
Martin H. Hall, Sammamish, WA (US);
Paul C. Sutton, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas G. Phillips, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A pay-per-use or pay-as-you-go computer uses a secure memory to store individual unique program identifiers. Each unique program identifier is associated with a particular hardware or software component, or service, or the entire computer available to a user. By combining the unique program identifier with a computer hardware identifier uniquely identified transactions may be tracked for both billing and reconciliation. Certificates associated with each unique program identifier, and coupled to the hardware identifier, provide a cryptographic basis for mutual verification of messages, requests, configuration instructions, and provisioning.