BE1001665A6 - SYSTEM FOR STORING PROTECTED SOFTWARE AND METHOD FOR ORDERING A COPY THEREOF. - Google Patents

SYSTEM FOR STORING PROTECTED SOFTWARE AND METHOD FOR ORDERING A COPY THEREOF. Download PDF

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BE1001665A6
BE1001665A6 BE8901264A BE8901264A BE1001665A6 BE 1001665 A6 BE1001665 A6 BE 1001665A6 BE 8901264 A BE8901264 A BE 8901264A BE 8901264 A BE8901264 A BE 8901264A BE 1001665 A6 BE1001665 A6 BE 1001665A6
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Brian Thomas Keegan
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F21/00—Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
    • G06F21/10—Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material ; Digital rights management [DRM]
    • G06F21/12—Protecting executable software
    • G06F21/121—Restricting unauthorised execution of programs
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F2211/00—Indexing scheme relating to details of data-processing equipment not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00
    • G06F2211/007—Encryption, En-/decode, En-/decipher, En-/decypher, Scramble, (De-)compress

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Système de stockage d'un logiciel protège et procédé de commande de sa copie pour en empêcher une copie par un ordinateur d'exécution (2) à disque dur et à dispositif de mémoire à accès sélectif (4), comportant un dispositif de mémoire source (6) pour le stockage dudit logiciel comprimé et un circuit d'établissement (10) entre le dispositif (6) et le disque dur (5), qui comprend des moyens de vérification du stockage d'un sous-programme de commande (9), un comparateur de format d'expression de drapeau, des moyens empêchant la copie dudit logiciel, des moyens pour modifier ledit format, des moyens pour copier sur le disque dur (5) ledit sous-programme (9), des moyens pour décomprimer ledit logiciel et en changer le nom et des moyens pour le copier ainsi sur le disque dur (5), des moyens de comparaison des copies susdites aux originaux et des moyens indiquant que la copie est réussie ou non, le logiciel protégé se composant d'une partie exécutable (8) et d'un sous-programme fictif (7); procédé de commande de la copie dudit logiciel.System for storing protected software and method for controlling its copy to prevent it from being copied by an execution computer (2) with a hard disk and a memory device with selective access (4), comprising a source memory device (6) for storing said compressed software and an establishment circuit (10) between the device (6) and the hard disk (5), which comprises means for verifying the storage of a control subroutine (9 ), a flag expression format comparator, means preventing copying of said software, means for modifying said format, means for copying said subroutine (9) to the hard disk (5), means for decompressing said software and change the name thereof and means for copying it thus onto the hard disk (5), means for comparing the aforementioned copies with the originals and means indicating that the copy is successful or not, the protected software consisting of an executable part (8) and a sub-p fictitious program (7); method of controlling the copy of said software.

BE8901264A 1989-11-27 1989-11-27 SYSTEM FOR STORING PROTECTED SOFTWARE AND METHOD FOR ORDERING A COPY THEREOF. BE1001665A6 (en)

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GB8925003A GB2238408A (en) 1989-11-27 1989-11-06 Copy protection in storage system
BE8901264A BE1001665A6 (en) 1989-11-27 1989-11-27 SYSTEM FOR STORING PROTECTED SOFTWARE AND METHOD FOR ORDERING A COPY THEREOF.

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EP0598587A1 (en) * 1992-11-13 1994-05-25 Hewlett-Packard Company File locking based on disk location

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DE4239865A1 (en) * 1992-11-27 1994-06-01 Heinz Johann Unauthorised program use prevention method - inserting installation chip card data carrier into test appts. before starting, interrogating card to check program addresses, and interrupting program with incorrect answer
WO1996024893A1 (en) * 1995-02-06 1996-08-15 Infosafe Systems, Inc. Method for retrieving secure information from a database

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EP0598587A1 (en) * 1992-11-13 1994-05-25 Hewlett-Packard Company File locking based on disk location

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GB8925003D0 (en) 1989-12-28

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