An apparatus includes a first host device comprising a first multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver configured to discover additional MPIO drivers of additional host devices of an enterprise system that utilize a given piece of software for controlling delivery of input-output operations to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network, the given software being licensed by a license server external to the enterprise system. The first MPIO driver is also configured to obtain a pool of licenses for the given software from the license server and to receive from a given one of the additional MPIO drivers a request for a license to utilize the given software. The first MPIO driver is further configured to check out one of the pool of licenses and enable use of the given software by the given additional MPIO based at least in part on the checked-out license.

Systems and methods for managing access data are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving prediction information relating to one or more content options and requesting access information associated with the prediction information. At least a portion of the received access information can be processed to provide a preliminary access decision. A request for access relating to the one or more data options can be received and an access decision based at least in part on the preliminary access decision can be provided.

A system may include one or more server devices disposed within a remote network management platform. The server devices may communicate with computing devices that are disposed within a managed network. The server devices may store a representation of software programs determined as installed on each of the computing devices. The server devices may also determine, by comparing software license rights to the representation of the software programs determined to be installed on each of the computing devices, whether the managed network is in compliance with the software program license rights. The devices may additionally provide, to a client device that is disposed within the managed network, a representation of a graphical user interface that denotes whether the managed network is in compliance with the software program license rights. The graphical user interface may include a reclamation rules page.

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing digital content for an application to users. For example, systems described herein can provide a license for the digital content during a rental time. Systems disclosed herein may additionally track a duration of use of an application and compare the tracked use against an amount of rental time purchased (e.g., rented) by a user. The systems described herein may further extend a license or terminate the license based on a determination of whether the amount of use exceeds a rental time. Features and functionality described herein provide a flexible and efficient mechanism that enables users having a variety of content-consuming preferences to receive affordable content while ensuring that use of an application is efficiently and accurately tracked.

Systems and methods for controlling access to wireless gaming devices and networks are provided. For example, access is controlled through one or more levels of security check, such as a hard security check instead of or in addition to a soft security check. In a hard security check, the user employs an apparatus such as a card or other physical token that can be used to access the wireless gaming device. Such an apparatus may communicate information that identifies the user to the device or may simply be used to produce a signal without which the device is locked to users.

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to providing unified digital rights management (DRM) across heterogeneous computing platforms. In embodiments, a unified DRM engine executed on a computing platform validates one or more constraints defined by a first content license associated with consumption of encrypted content. In response to successful validation, the unified DRM engine, in some embodiments, utilizes a second content license that is associated with the computing platform to enable a native DRM engine of the computing platform to decrypt the encrypted content. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

A license managing method including an execution device that executes software and a software storage device coupled to the execution device further includes a license storage device that stores license information indicating the number of licenses for permitting a license of the software, and the license managing method includes the step of license-managing of controlling storage of the software to be downloaded into the software storage device or execution of the software by the execution device based on the license information stored in the license storage device when the software whose license permission is required is downloaded.

A method and system for authorizing software in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device has a unique identifier (UID) and is connected to a server of the software through a terminal device. The method includes: generating and transmitting at least one section of audio/video data embedded with the UID corresponding to the electronic device to the terminal device; uploading the audio/video data through the terminal device and sending an authorization request to the server of the software; returning authorization audio/video data from the server of the software through the terminal device, wherein the authorization audio/video data includes an authorization key corresponding to the electronic device; and enabling the electronic device to obtain the authorization audio/video data by means of audio/video communication, so as to obtain the authorization key and authorize the software in the electronic device.

Inducements are provided to customers to regularly connect back to a service provider and report usage that is expressed using a count of requests from a local computing device for cloud-based operations such as packet routing, container instantiation, virtual machine (VM) utilization, calls to a service or application, and the like. The count information is reported within a secure context, such as a trusted execution environment (TEE), using public-private key pair cryptography by which key derivation is dependent on some form of counting. For example, a customer computing device that is subject to a usage license encrypts an operation count and reports it to the service provider.

The invention is a method for controlling execution of an application. The method comprising: installing and activating a software license unit including License terms and a secure repository comprising both an applet and parameters, providing a virtual USB dongle including a command gate, a License validator, a VM controller and a VM engine initially devoid of applet, verifying the License terms and only if the verification of the License terms is successful: loading said applet and parameters to the VM engine and enabling the Command gate, initializing configuration data and secret data in the VM engine by using the parameters stored in the VM engine then exchanging, between the applet and said hardware function driver, USB messages to control execution of said application.