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Patent
CA 2025434
The present invention provides to the software application the verification and license check out functions which are normally performed by a license server. The encrypted license information is contained in a license token, and is stored in the database controlled by the license server. In contrast to the prior art where the license server either grants or denies the request after verifying the user's credentials, the license server in the preferred embodiment of the present invention finds the correct license token for the software application and transmits the license token to the licensing library. The license access module attached to the application decodes the licensing token. Routines in the licensing library coupled to the software application verify the license information before checking out the license and updating the license token. The license access module then encodes the updated license token before returning it to the license server. Because the verification and check out function of a license token are performed by a software application, the software application rather than the license server becomes the point of attack by unauthorized users. Reverse engineering the license access module is less rewarding than attacking the license server because the license access module reveals the contents of a small fraction of a database of licenses.
Riches Mckenzie & Herbert Llp
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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