LICENSE AUDITING OF SOFTWARE USAGE BY ASSOCIATING SOFTWARE ACTIVATIONS WITH DEVICE IDENTIFIERS
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Sep 21, 2011
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Feb 22, 2008
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The provided software application includes a module that determines a machine fingerprint of a client device at an appropriate time, such as during initial software load on the client. The fingerprint may comprise various machine-determinable measures of system configuration for the client. Each application copy may be associated with a serial number. A license host may collect serial number, fingerprint and/or IP address information from clients on which the application is installed. The host may generate a map of application installations, including geographic locations of installations and number of unique serial numbers per client in specified regions.
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