Patent ID: 9331855
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a processor having a wireless interface operable to access a non-volatile memory of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag to store an attribute identity that is correlated with software that is licensed for a group of processors that include the processor rather than being correlated with the software that is licensed for the processor specifically so that licensed software is accessible to the processor without the processor having to uniquely identify itself, and where the attribute identity does not uniquely identify the processor, wherein, the processor is operable to: determine if a software entity that desires access to the attribute identity is permitted to read from the non volatile memory of the RFID tag; read the attribute identity from the non-volatile memory of the RFID tag in response to a determination that the software entity is permitted to read the attribute identity from the non volatile memory of the RFID tag; authenticate the attribute identity; provide the attribute identity to the software entity in response to the authenticity of the attribute identity being validated, or, initiate countermeasures if the attribute identity is not validated.