Patent ID: 7865445

Claim:
An information processing method for managing issuance of a license that controls an operation of a device of a user system and a function of an application to be installed in the device, comprising: an application information input step of inputting license access information from the user system for identifying the application in order to issue the license; a determining step of determining whether issuance of a unified license that unifies licenses for making the application operable in a plurality of devices is requested; a displaying step of displaying a screen provided in the user system for inputting device information, the screen indicating input fields respectively corresponding to the plurality of the devices, if it is determined in the determination step that issuance of the unified license is requested; a device information input step of inputting the device information from the screen of the user system for identifying the plurality of devices; a license issuing step of issuing a unified license including control information of the application for the plurality of devices, based on a combination of the plurality of devices identified by the device information and the application identified by the license access information, if it is determined in the determining step that issuance of the unified license is requested, and a transmitting step of transmitting the unified license to the user system, wherein as a format of the unified license to be issued either a unified license file or a unified license key number is exclusively issued in the license issuing step, corresponding to whether the devices identified by the device information are the same model or different models.