Patent ID: 7216363

Claim:
A method for protecting actuation of a computational component, comprising: (a) retrieving, from at least first and second computational components, at least first and second unique identifiers respectively associated with the at least first and second computational components, wherein the second computational component is a duplicate of the first computational component; (b) accessing a license file to obtain at least third and fourth identifiers; (c) comparing each of the at least first and second unique identifiers with at least one of the at least third and fourth identifiers; (d) when both the first and second identifiers matches a respective one of the third and fourth identifiers, permitting at least one of the at least first and second computational components to perform an operation; and (e) when both of the first and second identifiers do not match a respective one of the third and fourth identifiers, not permitting the at least one of the at least first and second computational components to perform an operation.