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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2012
David S. Dodgson, Lansdale, PA (US);
Anthony Narisi, Glenmoore, PA (US);
David S. Dodgson, Lansdale, PA (US);
Anthony Narisi, Glenmoore, PA (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
Dynamic licensing improves the utilization of licenses available within a computer network. License sinks, such as gateways, within a computer network may request licenses from a license source. The license source may be provisioned with a number of licenses from a secure fob plugged into the license source. If the license source has the number of licenses requested from the license sink, the license source may assign the licenses to the license sink. After a certain period of time, the license sink may renew the licenses or let the licenses return to the license source to be assigned to another license sink. The license requests may be passed through the network, including through a proxy and/or a relay, to a license server provisioned with licenses. Dynamic licensing software may execute as a service on each of the license sources and license sinks to pass dynamic licensing messages between devices.