Software licensing method, device and system

Abstract

The invention discloses a software licensing method, device and system. The software licensing method comprises the steps of receiving a request message for a digital license from a client end, wherein the request message includes identification information of the digital license; sending a response message which includes multiple term options for different usage policies corresponding to the requested digital license; receiving acknowledgement information, including the term options selected by the user, from the client end, calculating costs for user-selected terms and conditions, and sending fee information to the client end; sending a request to a cloud license management platform to generate a build request which has a digital license for the usage policy corresponding to the user-selected term options after the fee payment is confirmed. The software licensing method provides a humanized, simple, fast and effective way for software licensing.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of software license management, in particular to a software license method, a software license device and a software license system. Background technique [0002] Judging from the current Internet development trend, cloud licensing is already an inevitable final software license management solution. In the past software license sales process, it was basically followed: software developers priced software licenses, and the way users paid for the full payment was worth the fare for users who frequently used software. Although occasionally developers will introduce a small number of license options for users to choose and purchase, but users cannot purchase suitable usage items for software licenses according to their own wishes and usage characteristics. Perhaps a user of a certain software will only use it for a certain period of time in a year, the frequency / frequency of use is not high, and the duration of use is sh...

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However, the user only needs the software on certain days of the year (the time is not fixed), and does not need to use the software at other times, so 10,000 yuan is unacceptable for this user

[0004] 2. For student users, they may only use a certain software for a short period of time, and the number of times of use is also very limited. From the perspective of students' purchasing power, it is basically impossible to purchase a full license, and considering the use of The number of times is not much, and I will not buy the full amount of software. Instead, I prefer to find various pirated software on the Internet. This is equivalent to losing a large number of user groups for developers.

[0005] 3. The software sales process is cumbersome. When users use the software, the process of obtaining the software and obtaining the software license is separate. The software can be downloaded from the developer's website, but the license must be obtained by contacting the developer (or seller) Purchase of software licenses, such a process greatly hinders users' enthusiasm for using genuine software

[0006] Due to such a rigid licensing method in the existing technology, it becomes more and more difficult for developers to sell software, and it is easy to lose users

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