METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATING THE USE OF SOFTWARE

Patent №

US 5,652,793

Granted

1997-07-29

Filed 1995

Owner

NVIDIA CORPORATION

AI components

2

kr · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08436143

A hardware encoding circuit which generates a code value unique to a particular computer, stores a password unique to an application program and to the particular computer, tests the stored password against a verification value generated by the hardware encoding program each time the application program is run, and generates an error signal if the stored password and the verification value do not match.

AI classification

Evolutionary computation0.64
Knowledge representation0.62
AI hardware0.05
Natural language0.00
Planning0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

NVIDIA CORPORATION

assignment · 74800581

Assignors

PRIEM, CURTIS, ROSENTHAL, DAVID S.H.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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