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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2012
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 21/12 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 21/121 (2013.01); G06F 21/629 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 50/184 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0766 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0768 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0771 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0773 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for licensing an application for a device are provided herein. The method includes providing a license for an application from a licensing service to a number of computing devices associated with a user, wherein the license includes credentials. The method also includes associating the credentials with each computing device and periodically determining a state of a subscription corresponding to the license on each computing device. Each computing device is configured to call the licensing service at configurable time periods in order to determine the state of the subscription.