Patent ID: 7379918

Claim:
A method for reactivation of software products, the method comprising: requesting activation of a first software product, wherein the first software product hosts a reactivation policy group; associating a first hardware identifier with the first software product; requesting activation of a second software product, wherein the second software product has a binding list; associating the second software product with the first hardware identifier if the binding list of the second software product indicates a compatibility with the first software product, wherein associating the second software product with the first hardware identifier comprises a binding list indicating compatibility with at least one of the reactivation policy group and the first software product; requesting a reactivation event of the first software product; ascribing the reactivation event of the first software product to the second software product, thereby avoiding a request for reactivation event of the second software product; wherein compatibility with the reactivation policy group is indicated by comparison of a current hardware identifier with the first hardware identifier against a hardware change tolerance associated with the reactivation policy group.