Patent ID: 11914683
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A system for transferring software licenses and entitlements associated with a given user account associated with a given user of a first information handling system from the first information handling system (IHS) to a second IHS, the system comprising:
an administrator IHS having a first processing device, which is configured to register the second IHS to the given user account associated with the given user and to execute an entitlement management service to reassign the software licenses and entitlements associated with the given user account from the first IHS to the second IHS;
the second IHS having a computer readable storage device for storing an operating system (OS) and at least one OS service and a second processing device for executing the at least one OS service when the given user logs on to the second IHS for the first time to validate the second IHS and a workspace of the given user on the second IHS; and
an orchestration server having a computer readable storage device for storing one or more cloud-based orchestration services and a third processing device for executing the one or more cloud-based orchestration services only if the second IHS and the workspace of the given user is successfully validated by the at least one local validation service, wherein the one or more cloud-based orchestration services are executed by the third processing device to verify the given user account of the given user on the second IHS, determine which software licenses and entitlements are associated with the given user account, acquire and validate all the software licenses and entitlements associated with the given user account, and transfer the acquired software licenses and entitlements from the first information handling system to the second IHS only if the given user account is successfully verified and the software licenses and entitlements are successfully validated by the one or more cloud-based orchestration services;
where each of the transferred software licenses grants the rights to use a given software product and defines how the given software product may be used, and where each of the transferred software entitlements assigns the rights of a transferred software license; and
wherein the administrator IHS, the second IHS and the orchestration server are communicatively coupled via a network.