公开(公告)号：WO2007002279A3

公开(公告)日：2009-04-16

申请号：PCT/US2006024287

申请日：2006-06-21

Applicant: MICROSOFT CORP

Inventor： LIU YUE ,  GUNYAKTI CAGLAR ,  RITZ ANDREW J ,  HAUGEN TODD ,  YBARRA STEPHANIE ,  THOMPSON DOUGLAS REX ,  SVANCAREK MARK KYLE ,  KRIESBERG JOSHUA DAVID ,  OLSSON JOHN PETER HAKAN ,  NIEMAN ALLEN EDWARD

IPC: G06F9/00 ,  H04K1/00

CPC classification number: G06F21/572 ,  G06F2221/0735

Abstract: 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.

Abstract translation: 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。