Patent ID: 11954182
Assignee: BUFFALO INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The cloud management server according to claim 1, wherein
the processing circuitry is configured to:
manage information about validity for each license relating to the license information in the license database; and
receive an inquiry from a second storage device, to acquire information identifying a first owner of the second storage device associated with information identifying the second storage device that is a source of the inquiry, to refer to the license database to acquire license information in which the first owner of the second storage device identified by the acquired information is a second license subscriber or a second license sharer, to determine whether a second license relating to the acquired license information is valid or invalid, and to inform the second license subscriber or the second license sharer whether the second license is valid or invalid.