SOFTWARE DEACTIVATION BASED ON A DEACTIVATION TIME PERIOD

Patent №

US 7,900,246

Granted

2011-03-01

Filed 2005

Owner

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11141128

A method, an apparatus and a system perform software deactivation based on a deactivation time period. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a communication from a first client machine to deactivate a license of a software product that was previously activated on the first client machine. The method also includes determining a specified time period of deactivation. The method includes deactivating the license of the software product from the first client machine responsive to a determination that the license was previously activated on the first client machine during the specified time period of deactivation.

AI classification

AI hardware0.51
Evolutionary computation0.21
Knowledge representation0.01
Planning0.01
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

assignment · 166420855

Assignors

XU, XUEJUN, NADELL, KATHERINE KOCH, LIU, LI-QIAN, GRIFFIN, NOBUO, MISRA, VIVEK, VIJAY, SHYAM SUNDER

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

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