JP2007034389A5

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Publication number: JP2007034389A5
Application number: JP2005212723A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2005-07-22
Publication date: 2008-04-24
Anticipated expiration: 2025-07-22

Claims

A client that is connected via a network and that transmits issuance request data for execution license code of software executed by the client, and a license that receives the execution license issuance request data and notifies the client of the execution license code In a software license authentication apparatus comprising a management server,
The client includes transmission means for generating and transmitting the execution license issuance request data including network communication address data to the license management server;
The license management server
Extraction means for extracting the network communication address data from the execution license issue request data;
Search means for searching for data matching the network communication address data from a database pre-stored with the execution license code issue destination;
A license issuing means for notifying the client of the execution license code when there is no data matching the network communication address data as a result of the search by the search means;
A license authentication apparatus comprising:

The license authentication device according to claim 1,
The client is further provided with a collation key indicating correspondence with the software,
The execution license code issuance request data includes the verification key data,
The extraction means further extracts data of the verification key,
The retrieval means further retrieves a collation key included in the execution license issuance request data from the database further storing the collation key data,
A license authentication apparatus comprising license issuing means for notifying the client of the execution license code when there is no verification key data matching the verification key data as a result of the search.

In the license authentication device according to claim 1 or 2,
The client further comprises execution license release requesting means for requesting the license authentication server to release the execution license code after obtaining the execution license code,
The license management server receives the execution license code release request data from the execution license release request unit, and deletes any of license data, network communication address data, and verification key stored in the database. The license authentication apparatus further comprising:

The license authentication device according to claim 3, wherein
The license authentication apparatus, wherein the client rewrites the verification key of the client to a different verification key when the execution license cancellation request means requests the license management server to cancel the execution license code.

In the license authentication device according to claim 3 or 4,
The license management server further includes a release collation key storage unit that further extracts the collation key of the client from the release request data of the execution license and stores it in the database;
When the execution license release request data is received, a comparison key comparison for comparing whether the verification key included in the execution license release request data matches the verification key stored in the release verification key storage means Means,
A license authentication apparatus, further comprising: an execution license canceling unit that cancels the execution license when they match as a result of comparison by the verification key comparison unit.

In the license authentication device according to any one of claims 3 to 5,
Execution license acquisition status confirmation means for storing that the execution license has been acquired when the client has the execution license when the client backs up the system;
An execution license deleting unit that refers to the execution license acquisition status unit each time the client starts up the software and deletes the execution license code when the execution license has been acquired. License authentication device.

The license authentication device according to claim 6, wherein
A license authentication apparatus further comprising warning means for suggesting a reissue request for the execution license to a software user after the execution license deletion means deletes the execution license code.