Patent ID: 9594884
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for licensing an application for devices, comprising: providing, by one or more processors associated with a licensing service, a license for an application from the licensing service to a plurality of computing devices associated with a user, wherein the license comprises a keyless credential-based and processor-readable license; associating, by the one or more processors associated with the licensing service, the credentials with each of the plurality of computing devices; periodically determining, by the one or more processors associated with the licensing service, a state of a subscription corresponding to the license on each of the plurality of computing devices, wherein each of the plurality of computing devices is configured to call the licensing service at configurable time periods in order to determine the state of the subscription; detecting, by the one or more processors associated with the licensing service, a scenario on at least one computing device; identifying, by the one or more processors associated with the licensing service, an application programming interface (API) corresponding to the scenario of the at least one computing device, the API comprising a function corresponding to a variable license type, administrator, and license association to be used on the at least one computing device; and building, by the one or more processors associated with the licensing service, a license for at least one other computing device based on the state of the subscription of the at least one computing device.