LICENSING SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
ANAQUA CONNECT	ANAQUA, INC.	31 St. James Ave, Suite 1100 Boston MA 02116	Licensing of software for management of intellectual property;CONNECT;
AQX	Anaqua, Inc	31 Saint James Avenue, Suite 1100 Boston MA 02116	Licensing of software for management of intellectual property; Providing a web site featuring information about patents and patent applications; Providing an online searchable database in the field of patent applications; Providing on-line information in the field of intellectual property;
LICENSE ENFORCER	Arlington Web Services, Inc.	1500 West Third Ave. Suite#322 Columbus OH 43212	Licensing of software for management of intellectual property; Licensing of computer software;LICENSE;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A software licensing system includes a license generator located at a licensing clearinghouse and at least one license server and multiple clients located at a company or entity. When a company wants a software license, it sends a purchase request (and appropriate fee) to the licensing clearinghouse. The license generator at the clearinghouse creates a license pack containing a set of one or more individual software licenses. To prevent the license pack from being copied and installed on multiple license servers, the license generator assigns a unique license pack ID to the license pack and associates the license pack ID with the particular license server in a master license database kept at the licensing clearinghouse. The license generator digitally signs the license pack and encrypts it with the license server's public key. The license server is responsible for distributing the software licenses from the license pack to individual clients. When a client needs a license, the license server determines the client's operating system platform and grants the appropriate license. To prevent an issued license from being copied from one client machine to another, the software license is assigned to a specific client by including a client ID within the license. The software license also has a license ID that is associated with the client ID in a database record kept at the license server. The license server digitally signs the software license and encrypts it using the client's public key. The license is stored locally at the client.