Patent ID: 8230515

Claim:
A device, comprising: a processor executing evaluation logic to: allow an application to run in a first mode when a license is available and associated with the application, where: the application is a graphical modeling application, the application includes a graphical model, the first mode allows a client to perform a first activity, where the first activity includes editing the graphical model using the client, and the first mode allows the client to perform other activities including running the model, copying the model, sending the model, or receiving the model, allow the application to run in a second mode when the license is unavailable, where: the second mode allows the client to perform a subset of the activities included in the first mode, where the subset of the activities: excludes the first activity, and includes the other activities, and generate a response, where the response includes a permission that: allows the application to run in the first mode when the license is associated with the application, allows the application to run in the second mode when the license is unavailable; and an interface to: receive a request from the client when the client is executing the application, the request related to one or more activities associated with the application, where the one or more activities can include activities in the first mode or the second mode, and send the response to the client based on information about the one or more activities.