Patent ID: 7457874

Claim:
A system that facilitates management of a subscription service, the system comprising: a processor; a rules component, running on the processor, that processes a set of rules in accordance with the subscription service of a subscriber, wherein the set of rules comprising: a rule that automatically provides a license to a predetermined number of clients, and prevents anonymous rotation of more clients than the predetermined number of clients that are authorized by the license; a churn rule that facilitates control of how often one of the clients that are concurrently accessing the subscription service can be replaced with a new client; and a frequency rule that facilitates control of a number of times that one of the clients can leave the subscription service and re-enter the subscription service in a given period of time; a services component that uses the set of rules to automatically enforce the subscription service, in part, according to the number of concurrently connected clients of the subscriber; and a tracking service that tracks client activity under the subscription service by managing an active list of concurrently connected clients such that the subscriber can be billed accordingly.