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Client Devices and License Management Methods

A technology of client equipment and management methods, applied in the fields of electronic digital data processing, instruments, calculations, etc., which can solve the problems of not necessarily guaranteeing the immediate re-acquisition of licenses, the inability to restart operations immediately, and reducing user convenience, etc.

Active Publication Date: 2020-12-11
CANON KK
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On the other hand, as mentioned above, floating licenses have an upper limit on the number of users allowed to use the application at the same time, so that immediate reacquisition of the license is not necessarily guaranteed
More specifically, there is a risk that even if the account is only temporarily switched, once the license is returned, the returned license may be acquired by other users, so that when the account environment returns to the original account environment The job cannot be restarted immediately
[0009] As described above, if a license is held for a predetermined period of time by an application working under an inactive account environment, this causes a problem that the operating rate of the license decreases
However, if the switch is expected to be a temporary switch of accounts, immediately returning the license at the moment the account is switched may reduce user convenience

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[0023] system structure

[0024] figure 1 The structure of the floating license management system according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is shown. The present exemplary embodiment is a system in which a license server and a plurality of clients can communicate with each other via a network. Local area network (LAN) 100 is a LAN that enables client 110 (and client 111 ) and license server 120 to communicate with each other, but may also be a wide area network (WAN).

[0025] Application 300 is installed in client 110 (and client 111). The client 110 (and the client 111) can obtain a license (floating license) for using the application 300 from the license server 120 to realize the lifting of the use restriction imposed on a part or all of the application 300, The application program 300 is thus used.

[0026] The license server 200 is a license server for issuing floating licenses to the applications 300 operating within the client 110 (and t...

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a client device and a license management method. The present invention is configured to acquire a license with a valid time period and to periodically renew the license. The present invention stops the periodic update of the license when the environment in which the application is executed is inactive, and restarts the periodic update of the license when it is determined that the environment is active.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to license management of applications based on floating licenses. Background technique [0002] As one of methods for granting a license to a client to use a paid application, there is a floating license method. This is a method of using a license server (hereinafter simply referred to as a server) to manage a plurality of licenses purchased by a user (that is, a plurality of licenses that can be used simultaneously) and to have the server lend the licenses to clients, This enables these clients to temporarily use the application. In other words, the method enables these clients to launch the application simultaneously within the number of licenses purchased. The body of the application itself can be installed on any number of devices. On each client, when the application is started, the application connects to the server and receives the issuance of the license, thereby enabling the client to use the application for wh...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F21/10
CPCG06F21/105G06F21/1011G06F21/1073G06F21/1077G06F21/57G06F21/1063G06F21/1079
Inventor 皆川智德
Owner CANON KK