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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2014
Storagecraft Technology Corporation, Draper, UT (US);
Nathan S. Bushman, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
Douglas Mark Lee, Orem, UT (US);
Storagecraft Technology Corporation, Draper, UT (US);
Abstract
Software activation and revalidation. In one example embodiment, a method for software activation and revalidation includes collecting machine configuration information from a machine on which a software application has been at least partially installed, sending the machine configuration information and a product key to an activation server, applying activation rules to determine whether the product key is valid for the machine configuration information, if the product key is valid for the machine configuration information, activating the software application by sending, from the activation server to the machine, license data that authorizes access to the software application and that contains the activation rules, periodically applying, at the machine, the activation rules to newly-collected machine configuration information to determine if the product key remains valid for the newly-collected machine configuration information, and if the product key remains valid, revalidating the license data to authorize continued access to the software application.