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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2012
Yadvinder Bhatia, Punjab, IN;
Anand Sankruthi, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Yadvinder Bhatia, Punjab, IN;
Anand Sankruthi, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for providing users with customized renewal policies may include 1) determining that a license for a software product installed on a user's computing system has expired or will expire within a predetermined amount of time, 2) in response to determining that the license for the software product has expired or will expire, monitoring, via a local module installed on the computing system, computing activities of the user, 3) evaluating the user's computing activities to determine that the user is investigating a competitor's software product that is capable of performing one or more functions performed by the installed software product, 4) creating, based on the user's investigation of the competitor's software product, a customized renewal policy for renewing the license to the installed software product, 5) inviting the user to renew the license under the customized renewal policy.
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