Patent ID: 9607328
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: registering, by a server, purchases of licenses, on a license database, for licensed content in association with each client system in a plurality of client systems based on purchase requests of the licenses requested by corresponding client systems, the plurality of client systems having downloaded the licensed content over one or more networks and stored the licensed content on storage devices; based on the license database, automatically verifying, for a particular client system, that proper content is resident on the particular client system, the automatically verifying comprising: responsive to, while automatically verifying that proper content is resident on the particular client system, determining that the registered purchases of the licenses in the license database do not include a purchase of a license for the particular electronic content associated with the particular client system, sending, by the server, over a first network, to the particular client system, an instruction to remove the particular electronic content from the particular client system, receipt of the instruction causing the particular client system to remove the particular electronic content from the particular client system in response to the instruction; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.