Patent ID: 8645278

Claim:
A method comprising: a. a supervising site transmitting a software module to a licensing site associated with a software company; b. the supervising site receiving from the licensing site a software product comprising the software module; c. the supervising site transmitting the software product comprising the software module to a vendor site; d. the vendor site transmitting the software product to a programmable computing device; e. the programmable computing device determining, by executing instructions of the software module stored in the programmable computing device, that a software product license is not stored in the programmable computing device; f. in response to determining that the software product license is not stored in the programmable computing device, the programmable computing device determining, by executing instructions of the software module that a license purchase receipt for the software product is not stored in the programmable computing device; g. in response to determining that the software product license and the license purchase receipt for the software product are not stored in the programmable computing device, the programmable computing device executing instructions of the software module to create a graphical interface at the programmable computing device, the graphical interface displaying one or more purchase options for the software product; h. the programmable computing device locally accessing identification data of the vendor site and setting up a communication with the vendor site, using the locally accessed identification data of the vendor site, by executing instructions of the software module; i. the programmable computing device executing instructions of the software module for purchasing online a license for the software product from the vendor site; j. in response to receiving a license purchase request from the programmable computing device, the vendor site transmitting to the programmable computing device the license purchase receipt; k. the licensing site receiving from the programmable computing device the license purchase receipt transmitted from the vendor site; l. the licensing site receiving from the programmable computing device an identifier associated with the programmable computing device; and m. in response to receiving said license purchase receipt and said identifier, the licensing site transmitting to the programmable computing device the software product license, the software product license is bound to the identifier of the programmable computing device.