Patent ID: 8966618
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A license management system comprising: an information processing device; and a license check device that independently operates on a platform independently of the information processing device, and that is operatively connected to the information processing device through the platform, in which one of the license check device and the information processing device further comprising a matching unit that matches the first identification information and the second identification information with each other, and matches the first license information and the second license information, respectively, wherein the license check unit checks, based on a result of the matching performed by the matching unit, whether the information processing device has a license, wherein the matching unit stores information on whether the first identification information and the second identification information coincide with each other as matching result information in a third storage unit when the license program is installed, wherein the matching unit, when the matching result information is stored in the third storage unit, in an execution process of the application program, reads the matching result information from the third storage unit, and checks whether the first identification information and the second identification information coincide with each other, wherein when the first identification information and the second identification information coincide with each other, as determined by the composition of the matching result information, wherein when the first identification information and the second identification information do not coincide with each other, as determined by the composition of the matching result information, the calling unit does not call the information processing device.