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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2012
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Karvell Li, Bellevue, WA (US);

Robert Donner, Bellevue, WA (US);

Amit Wadhwa, Bellevue, WA (US);

Danny R. Amirault, Bellevue, WA (US);

Sanjay Garg, Redmond, WA (US);

Gregory Akselrod, Seattle, WA (US);

Scott Kurtzeborn, Redmond, WA (US);

Donald Gordon Hardy, Seattle, WA (US);

Tianyu Xie, Redmond, WA (US);

Chad Shurtz, Marysville, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04N 7/167 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.


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