Methods and systems are disclosed for managing registrations of computers. The methods and systems provide a registration tool that may be used to automatically register the computers. For each computer to be registered, information uniquely identifying the computer is collected and sent to a remote registration server. The information is then used by the remote registration server to perform the registration on behalf of the computer. The registration may be with a software vendor, a third-party database, or with the remote registration server itself in some cases. The registration server thereafter returns a registration code or other information to the computer to complete the registration. Such an arrangement allows the registration process to be controlled from a central location.

At least one machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed by a system cause the system to send a unique identifier to a license server, establish a secure channel based on the unique identifier, request a license for activating an appliance from a license server over the secure channel, receive license data from the license server over the secure channel; determine whether the license is valid, and activate the appliance in response to a determination that the license data is valid.

At least one machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed by a system cause the system to send a unique identifier to a license server, establish a secure channel based on the unique identifier, request a license for activating an appliance from a license server over the secure channel, receive license data from the license server over the secure channel; determine whether the license is valid, and activate the appliance in response to a determination that the license data is valid.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement and manage software defined silicon products are disclosed. Example semiconductor devices disclosed herein include circuitry configurable to provide one or more features. Disclosed example semiconductor devices also include a license processor to activate or deactivate at least one of the one or more features based on a license received via a network from a first remote enterprise system. Disclosed example semiconductor devices further include an analytics engine to report telemetry data associated with operation of the semiconductor device to at least one of the first remote enterprise system or a second remote enterprise system, the analytics engine to report the telemetry data in response to activation or deactivation of the at least one of the one or more features based on the license.

Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for providing software ownership validation of optical discs using secondary devices. In aspects, a user may request access to electronic content using a first device. In response to the request, a local network comprising the first device may be queried to identify a second device having access to the electronic content. For example, the second device may comprise an optical disc comprising the electronic content. Upon identifying the second device, the second device may be queried to determine whether the second device is able to validate the user's ownership of the electronic content. If the second device is able to validate the user's ownership of the electronic content, the first device is provided access to the electronic content.

A multi-device digital rights management server is provided. The server may include, but is not limited to, a processor communicatively coupled to a communications system and a memory, the processor configured to receive, from the communications system, a request to transfer digital content from a first user device to a second user device, update, upon receipt of the request, digital rights management data stored in the memory to enable both the first user device and the second user device to consume the digital content, receive, from the communications system, notice that one of the first user device and the second user device is consuming the digital content, update, upon receipt of the notice, the digital rights management data to disable the other of the first user device and the second user device from consuming the digital content.

A monitoring control device according to an embodiment includes a host-side storage unit and a host-side processor. The host-side storage unit is configured to store an HMI program configured to generate a monitoring operation screen, host-side remote monitoring software configured to establish connection between an own device and a client PC according to a remote desktop protocol and send the monitoring operation screen to the client PC, and a key code. The host-side processor is configured to execute the host-side remote monitoring software and the HMI program. The host-side remote monitoring software is configured to virtualize a dongle connected to the client PC, as a dongle connected to the monitoring control device. The HMI program is configured to end execution of the HMI program if the key code stored in the virtualized dongle does not match with the key code stored in the host-side storage unit.

A verification system, includes: an arithmetic/logic unit (“ALU”) to perform one or more mathematical operations and compare selected variables; a register to hold a value from a comparison of selected variables performed by the ALU; an instruction decoder to provide read and write commands to memory; an address bus to provide an address to memory for a read or write operation; and a data bus to provide or access data for a write or read operation to or from memory, wherein the ALU generates and provides a recipient identifier to a target computational device, the recipient identifier being related to an identity of the target computational device and/or a target device human operator, and write the recipient identifier to memory in response to a write command issued by the instruction decoder and, as a part of a transaction, the ALU receives, from a user computational device of a first user, the recipient identifier and a credential of the first user and/or user computational device, compares each of the recipient identifier and credential against one or more stored values, and, when each of the comparisons match, causes information provider system to provide restricted information to the target computational device to enable the target computational device to perform an operation.

There is provided a method for use by a playback system to play back encrypted content associated with a first globally unique identifier (ID). The method includes storing an encrypted content in a memory being under control of a memory controller having a second globally unique ID, storing the first globally unique ID, transmitting a request from the memory controller to a license server, the request comprising the first globally unique ID, the second globally unique ID and a request for a content license to play back the encrypted content, receiving the content license enabling a right for the playback of the encrypted content, the content license including content keys and being encrypted to be decryptable according to a memory controller secret associated with the second globally unique ID, decrypting the content license, according to the memory controller secret to recover the content keys to a playback module.

A method for downloading content into a wearable device is described. The method includes utilizing an application executable on a computing device to create a user account via a web portal, affixing an object to a receiving portion of a wearable device, detecting the object by the receiving portion of the wearable device, reading tag data of the object, verifying that the wearable device is associated with the user account, confirming a purchase of the digital content of the object, and utilizing the tag data to interact with a cloud backend to download the digital content.