Patent ID: 7831516
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: G03B,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of licensing access to an item of protected information over a first communications network to a first computing device and a second computing device, wherein each computing device receives license data specific to such computing device before having the capability to access the protected information, the method comprising: receiving, by a licensing server, first identifier data generated by the first computing device based at least in part on a characteristic of the first computing device; generating, by the licensing server, first license data using the first identifier data but not using any other information unique to the first computing device, and storing the first license data to a storage device accessible to the first computing device; distributing the item of protected information from the first computing device to the second computing device; receiving, by the licensing server, second identifier data generated by the second computing device and based at least in part on a characteristic of the second computing device which is different from the characteristic of the first computing device on which the first identifier data is based; and generating, by the licensing server, second license data using the second identifier data but not using any other information unique to the second computing device, and storing the second license data in a storage device accessible to the second computing device.