Patent ID: 8806660

Claim:
A device for secure licensing for an information handling system, comprising: a processor; a network interface communicatively coupled to the processor; a plug communicatively coupled to the processor for interfacing with a port of an information handling system; a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon one or more instructions, the one or more instructions configured to, when executed by the processor: boot the information handling system; establish a secure wireless network connection between the network interface and a licensing server; retrieve information regarding one or more hardware components of the information handling system via the plug; retrieve a first unique marker binding a first license key to the one or more hardware components of the information handling system via the plug; retrieve a second license key for a software program associated with information handling system from the licensing server; generate a second unique marker binding the second license key to the one or more hardware components, the second unique marker based at least on a unique hardware identifier and the second license key; store the unique marker on the information handling system; and transmit the first unique marker to the licensing server to prevent further consumption of the first license key.