Patent ID: 7644279

Claim:
A system for consumer product distribution, the system comprising: an agent server configured to: receive a digitation file from a source, wherein the digitation file comprises an interdigitated stream of data that includes configuration information and data to be processed by an adaptive computing engine (ACE), and wherein operations performed by the ACE are configured by the digitation file, associate the digitation file with a certificate to create a signed digitation file, and return the signed digitation file to the source; and a license server configured to: store the signed digitation file, and store a license associated with the signed digitation file, wherein a first ACE is configured to receive a first instance of the digitation file, verify that the first instance of the digitation file includes a signature that corresponds to the certificate associated with the digitation file by the agent server, and request a first instance of the license associated with the first instance of the digitation file from the license server.