Patent ID: 7530117
Filing Date: 2009-05-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A license information issuing server for issuing license information to a user terminal for installing software in apparatuses that communicate with the user terminal, comprising: a storage unit that stores, associated with license access information corresponding to a software, a license count number designating a limit of the number of apparatuses in which the software is permitted to be installed; a first transmission unit that, upon receiving an access request via a network from the user terminal for license information, transmits to the user terminal first display data for displaying on a display unit of the user terminal a first input area for the user to input license access information of a software to be installed; a first reception unit that receives license access information input by the user in the first input area; a determination unit that, upon receiving from the user terminal license access information input by the user in the first input area, determines, based on the license count number designating the limit of the number of the apparatuses in which the software associated with the received license access information can be installed, a number of second input areas for a user to input identification information identifying each of the apparatuses in which the software is to be installed; a second transmission unit that transmits, to the user terminal, second display data for displaying on the display unit of the user terminal the determined number of the second input areas for the user to input the identification information of the apparatuses in which the software is to be installed; a second reception unit that receives from the user terminal a plurality of pieces of identification information of the apparatuses input by the user in the second input areas; and a license information issuing unit that issues license information to the user terminal for permitting installation of the software to each of the apparatuses corresponding to the plurality of pieces of identification information received by said second reception unit.