Patent ID: 9317665
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A service management apparatus, comprising: a user storage hardware device which stores information for identifying a user and a terminal associated in advance with the user; a license information storage hardware device which stores a license including the information for identifying the terminal associated in advance with the user, license information for identifying a predetermined service the user is permitted to use on the terminal and license information for identifying a setting limitation on the license; a setting request reception hardware device which receives a setting request issued by another terminal to set the license, the setting request including information for identifying the another terminal that has issued the setting request and a user of the another terminal; an associated terminal identification processing hardware device which acquires the information for identifying the another terminal that is associated with the user of the another terminal included in the setting request; a license identification processing hardware device which identifies a respective license that each terminal is permitted to use and is settable to the another terminal that has issued the setting request, wherein the each terminal is identified by the information acquired by the associated terminal identification processing device; a license setting processing hardware device which sets the license identified by the license identification processing hardware device to the another terminal that has issued the setting request; a model-service association information storage hardware device which stores model-service association information including information for identifying a model of the another terminal and information for identifying, for each model, the predetermined service that is available at the each model, wherein