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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2008
Ajay Arvind Bhave, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Walter Zagorski, Redmond, WA (US);
Tarik Soulami, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian S. Perlman, Bothell, WA (US);
Ning Zhang, Bothell, WA (US);
Ajay Arvind Bhave, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Walter Zagorski, Redmond, WA (US);
Tarik Soulami, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian S. Perlman, Bothell, WA (US);
Ning Zhang, Bothell, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An instance of an application hierarchy can be stored on a client computer to facilitate enforcement of software licensing by a software license component of a software protection system. The application hierarchy is a tree structure (e.g., unordered) that includes a top node, one or more product offering group(s), and, one or more selling unit(s). A computer-implemented software protection system can facilitate enforcement of software licensing on a client computer. The software protection system includes a software license component that can store and enforce software licensing rule(s). The software license component can further manipulate state data of an instance of the application hierarchy stored in a licensing data store via application program interface(s) (APIs). State data and/or property(ies) of a particular node of the instance of the application hierarchy can be accessed through the API via an assigned identifier.