System and method of automated licensing of an appliance or an application
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May 6, 2004
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Nov 4, 2002
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Nov 4, 2002
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The invention is a system and method of automated licensing of an appliance or an application. The method includes obtaining for a customer a customer identification (23); obtaining for the customer the license entitlement (23') for the appliance or the application; providing (56) from the customer to a licensing client associated with the appliance or the application the customer identification and the license entitlement; producing with the licensing client a validation key to identify an entity associated with the appliance or a host of the application; transmitting (58) the validation key, the customer identification and the license entitlement to a licensing server; processing (62) the validation key, the customer identification and license entitlement at the licensing server to determine if the validation key, the customer identification and license entitlement are verified, and generating (26) with the licensing server a license key.
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