公开(公告)号：US20080183591A1

公开(公告)日：2008-07-31

申请号：US11700418

申请日：2007-01-31

申请人： Hakan Olsson ,  Alex A. Kipman ,  Joshua Kriesberg ,  Mark Svancarek

发明人： Hakan Olsson ,  Alex A. Kipman ,  Joshua Kriesberg ,  Mark Svancarek

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q30/0601

摘要： A developer of digital products can provide one or more digital products for sale to a user, some of which are not purchased or active. Subsequently, when a user desires to purchase such digital products, only a license file needs to be provided to the user. To encourage such bundling, the bundler, such as a hardware manufacturer can include identifiers to enable a referral payment to be paid to the manufacturer. Similarly, identifiers of a merchant of record can be included to direct the user to a specific merchant for the sale. To streamline the management of digital licenses, an authorized merchant can be used to provide digital licenses upon purchase, even if the sale was completed with a merchant of record.

摘要翻译： 数字产品的开发商可以向用户提供一种或多种数字产品出售，其中一些不是购买或活跃的。 随后，当用户希望购买这样的数字产品时，仅需要向用户提供许可证文件。 为了鼓励这种捆绑，捆绑商（例如硬件制造商）可以包括标识符，以便将转介支付支付给制造商。 类似地，可以包括记录商家的标识符以将用户引导到特定商家进行销售。 为了简化数字许可证的管理，授权商户可以在购买时使用数字许可证，即使销售已经与记录商家完成。

公开(公告)号：US20060288422A1

公开(公告)日：2006-12-21

申请号：US11157886

申请日：2005-06-21

申请人： Yue Liu ,  Caglar Gunyakti ,  Andrew Ritz ,  Todd Haugen ,  Stephanie Ybarra ,  Douglas Thompson ,  Mark Svancarek ,  Joshua Kriesberg ,  John Olsson ,  Allen Nieman

发明人： Yue Liu ,  Caglar Gunyakti ,  Andrew Ritz ,  Todd Haugen ,  Stephanie Ybarra ,  Douglas Thompson ,  Mark Svancarek ,  Joshua Kriesberg ,  John Olsson ,  Allen Nieman

IPC分类号： H04N7/16

CPC分类号： G06F21/572 ,  G06F2221/0735

摘要： Systems and methods for software licensing enforcement using an ACPI BIOS. A digital license is provided that includes information about both the software and hardware on which it is to be run. The licensing process receives hardware and software information from the end user and binds the license to both. A main BIOS binary contains code and static motherboard specific data. Dynamic state values containing, e.g., machine-specific system management data, such as, a serial number may be stored subsequently on NVRAM or its equivalent. The main BIOS binary allows provides sufficient functionality to test the hardware. Once the software to be loaded on the system is known, a corresponding digital license containing both the software and hardware information is loaded to NVRAM.

摘要翻译： 使用ACPI BIOS执行软件许可的系统和方法。 提供了一个数字许可证，其中包含有关要在其上运行的软件和硬件的信息。 许可过程从最终用户接收硬件和软件信息，并将许可证绑定到两者。 主BIOS二进制包含代码和静态主板特定数据。 包含例如机器特定的系统管理数据（诸如序列号）的动态状态值可以随后存储在NVRAM或其等效物上。 主BIOS二进制允许提供足够的功能来测试硬件。 一旦要在系统上加载的软件是已知的，则将包含软件和硬件信息的相应数字许可证加载到NVRAM。