Patent ID: 8037524

Claim:
A method for guard point licensing, comprising: obtaining, by a management system from a first system, a first random number, the management system operatively connected to the first system; passing, by the management system, the first random number and a first application specific context to a second system, the management system operatively connected to the second system; obtaining, by the management system; from the second system, a first pass phrase and a second random number; passing, by the management system, the first pass phrase and the second random number to the first system; obtaining, by the management system from the second system, a third random number; passing, by the management system, the third random number and a second application specific context to the second system; obtaining, by the management system from the first system, a second pass phrase and a fourth random number; passing, by the management system, the second pass phrase and the fourth random number to the second system; and verifying, by the first and second systems, the passed pass phrases.