Patent ID: 8385525

Claim:
A system comprising: a. an electronically accessible computing server configured to allow a subscriber to locally control at least one electronically executable requested program using a subscriber-accessed apparatus, even when the subscriber-accessed apparatus is disconnected from the computing server; b. a plurality of unique subscriber accounts stored on the computing server, each account associated with a unique subscriber and comprising 1) unique subscriber authentication information and subscriber-accessed apparatus authentication information of the last subscriber-accessed apparatus from which the subscriber successfully logged onto the computing server, 2) a list of the subscriber's registered apparatuses, wherein the registered apparatuses do not have to be owned by the subscriber, 3) the subscriber's current status embodied, if active, in the subscriber's token, which is recorded on the computing server and configured to maintain the subscriber's status even when the subscriber is not connected to the computing server, and 4) the token's expiration time; and c. at least one electronically executable computing program that can be executed under local control by the subscriber-accessed apparatus; wherein the computing server is configured to 1) manage the plurality of unique subscriber accounts; 2) provide a pre-timed activation of the at least one electronically executable computing program only when the subscriber account corresponding to the subscriber authentication information included in the subscriber's request does not have an active token stored; 3) record the subscriber's token indicating active system status when activation of the at least one electronically executable computing program is provided and, in the subscriber's account, record the token expiration time, which is synchronized to the activation expiration of the at least one electronically requested executable computing program; 4) provision at least one electronically executable computing program with pre-timed de-installation instructions to the apparatus when the apparatus from which the request was sent is not in the subscriber's list of registered apparatuses; and 5) delete the subscriber's token in the subscriber's account when the token's expiration time has been reached, thereby releasing the subscriber's token; wherein authorized subscribers are provided serial access from a plurality of computing apparatuses to their licensed computing software.