Patent ID: 7610632

Claim:
A software use permission method for permitting or inhibiting combined use on a platform that comprises a computer of a plurality of types of software including a software body I and a software body II provided to the platform as digital electronic data, the method comprising the steps of: preparing, before the providing of the software body I to the platform a determination computer program I operable to determine, as an authentication determination, whether to authenticate the software body II for the combined use with the software body I, the determination computer program I prepared and provided to the platform by a different computer; providing, as software I, the determination computer program I combined with the software body I from a computer I to the platform; executing the determination computer program I on the platform before the platform employs for the combined use the software body I with the software body II; and only when the determination computer program I determines that the software body II has been authenticated for the combined use with the software body I, performing a process by the platform to permit the combined use of the software body II with the software body I.