Patent ID: 9477821
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system to enable customers to provision devices with feature licenses that enable specified features in the devices, the system comprising: a feature-licensing system server for performing feature-licensing processes to provision the devices with the feature licenses, the feature-licensing processes including a series of feature-licensing activities that each perform an action on a feature license and at least one configuration retrieval point that arises between a specified pair of sequentially performed ones of the feature-licensing activities; and a feature-licensing process configuration system including: wherein at least one of the licensing activities included in the first feature-licensing activity configuration has one or more licensing-activity parameters associated therewith, the activity parameter including at least one input value to be used by the licensing activity with which it is associated when performing the action on the feature license.