LICENSING COMPUTER SOFTWARE WHICH

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
ALLURE FUSION MEDIA	Allure Fusion Media, Inc.	1375 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 300 Atlanta GA 30309	LICENSING OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE WHICH UTILIZES THE GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK TO PROVIDE FOCUSED INFORMATION AT THE POINT OF INTEREST FOR MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION PURPOSES;MEDIA;
NAUTILUS	FISERV, INC.	255 Fiserv Drive Brookfield WI 53045	Licensing of computer software which enables financial institutions to do document imaging, storage, retrieval, and management of their customers' financial records and transactions;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A software licensing system includes a license generator located at a licensing clearinghouse and at least one license server and multiple clients located at a company or entity. When a company wants a software license, it sends a purchase request (and appropriate fee) to the licensing clearinghouse. The license generator at the clearinghouse creates a license pack containing a set of one or more individual software licenses. To prevent the license pack from being copied and installed on multiple license servers, the license generator assigns a unique license pack ID to the license pack and associates the license pack ID with the particular license server in a master license database kept at the licensing clearinghouse. The license generator digitally signs the license pack and encrypts it with the license server's public key. The license server is responsible for distributing the software licenses from the license pack to individual clients. When a client needs a license, the license server determines the client's operating system platform and grants the appropriate license. To prevent an issued license from being copied from one client machine to another, the software license is assigned to a specific client by including a client ID within the license. The software license also has a license ID that is associated with the client ID in a database record kept at the license server. The license server digitally signs the software license and encrypts it using the client's public key. The license is stored locally at the client.