Patent ID: 8560454
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing users with customized renewal policies, at least a portion of the method being performed by at least one processor, the method comprising: determining, by a user's computing system or a remote licensing server, that a license for a first software product providing by a first entity and installed on the user's computing system has expired or will expire within a predetermined amount of time; monitoring, by the user's computing system, computing activities of the user in response to the determination that the license for the first software product has expired or will expire; evaluating, by the user's computing system or the remote licensing server, the user's computing activities by searching the user's computing activities for information indicating that the user is investigating a second software product providing by a second entity that performs one or more functions performed by the first software product; determining, by the user's computing system or the remote licensing server, that the user is investigating the second software product based on the evaluation of the user's computing activities; creating, by the user's computing system or the remote licensing server, a customized renewal policy for renewing the license to the first software product based on the user's investigation of the second software product; inviting, by the user's computing system or the remote licensing server, the user to renew the license under the customized renewal policy.