Patent ID: 8620817

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, from a vendor, an installer package associated with a software application to be installed on a client computer, the installer package not including license administration functionality, wherein the license administration functionality includes tracking usage of the software application, and enforcing license limits of the software application; extracting one or more executable files from the installer package and creating a new installer package wherein creating a new installer package comprises: generating one or more license-enabled executable files with the one or more extracted executable files and a license wrapper; adding license server location for each license-enabled executable file to the new installer package; and packaging the one or more license enabled executable files into the new installer package, the new installer package supporting the license administration functionality; and executing the new installer package on the client computer to install the software application on the client computer and permit managing of software licensing rights of said software application by obtaining the location of the license server from the new installer package, contacting the license server, and obtaining a license for the software application.