Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) for software defined silicon security are disclosed. Example apparatus include a trusted agent determiner to (i) determine respective reputation scores associated with a plurality of agents in a mesh network, the plurality of agents associated with a plurality of semiconductor devices, respective ones of the semiconductor devices including circuitry configurable to provide one or more features, and (ii) select, based on the respective reputation scores, a first agent from the plurality of the agents to transmit a request to activate or deactivate at least one of the one or more features. Example apparatus also include an agent interface to, in response to the request, broadcast an activation or deactivation of the least one of the one or more features to the mesh network to cause the trusted agent determiner to update the reputation score of the first agent.

A method, system and computer program product assess risk of an unauthorized API login and mitigate damage from an unauthorized API login. The method includes collecting in a database license attributes of a user license, user profile attributes, and database content change attributes; receiving an API login request; comparing features of the API login request to at least one of the database license attributes, user profile attributes, and database content change attributes against a predetermined threshold; assessing a risk of the an unauthorized API login request based on a result of the comparison; and based on a level of the assessed risk, implemented protective action to mitigate harm that may result from an unauthorized user from accessing information or services from a computer system by way of an API.

Transaction-enabled systems and methods for royalty apportionment and stacking are disclosed. An example system may include a plurality of royalty generating elements (a royalty stack) each related to a corresponding one or more of a plurality of intellectual property (IP) assets (an aggregate stack of IP). The system may further include a royalty apportionment wrapper to interpret IP licensing terms and apportion royalties to a plurality of owning entities corresponding to the aggregate stack of IP in response to the IP licensing terms and a smart contract wrapper. The smart contract wrapper is configured to access a distributed ledger, interpret an IP description value and IP addition request, to add an IP asset to the aggregate stack of IP, and to adjust the royalty stack.

The present invention provides a processing device (1) including a storage unit (112) that stores device-specific information in association with device identification information for identifying each of a plurality of devices, an authentication key request reception unit (101) that receives an authentication key request including device identification information, an authentication key issuing unit (102) that issues an authentication key, a license key request reception unit (103) that receives a license key request including the device identification information and the authentication key, a license key issuing unit (104) that issues a license key, and a revelation control unit (108) that controls revelation of the device-specific information of each device based on issuance states of the authentication key and the license key.

This disclosure relates to, among other things, systems and methods for deriving key identifiers and managing mapping between keys and key identifiers. Consistent with embodiments disclosed herein, the disclosed systems and methods may provide a mechanism that allows multiple parties to reconstruct unique identifiers given a set of known inputs that may be used to look up, identify, and/or otherwise access services and/or data objects. In some embodiments, this may allow for a service provider and a rights management service to independently derive key identification information based on information that both entities share (e.g., a content document such as a Content Protection Information Exchange Format document), thereby reducing requirements to maintain such mappings.

Embodiments of systems and computer implemented methods are provided to transfer software licenses and entitlements associated with a user account from a first information handling system (IHS) to a second IHS. A computer implemented method in accordance with the present disclosure may generally include executing an entitlement management service to reassign the software licenses and entitlements associated with the user account to the second IHS, executing at least one local validation service on the second IHS to validate the second IHS and the user's workspace, and if the second IHS and the user's workspace is successfully validated by the at least one local validation service, executing one or more cloud-based orchestration services to verify the user account, determine which software licenses and entitlements are associated with the user account, and acquire and validate the software licenses and entitlements before transferring the software licenses and entitlements to the second IHS.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, including requesting a license for software from first equipment of a license holder; receiving a passed ledger associated with the license from the first equipment of the license holder, wherein the passed ledger comprises a latest block; receiving a hash value for the latest block from a software vendor of the software; calculating a hash value for the latest block; and responsive to the hash value provided by second equipment of the software vendor matching the hash value calculated for the latest block: executing the software. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Disclosed herein are systems and method for gradually updating software object instances on a plurality of computer nodes. In an exemplary aspect, in response to receiving a notification from a software object instance, a system may register the software object instance at an update server. The system may store and deploy a plurality of links, wherein each deployed link uniquely corresponds to a registered software object instance. The system may then associate two or more subsets of the plurality of links with two or more update locations, in accordance with an update policy. The system may place an update to the software object instance at the two or more update locations in accordance with an update policy. In response to receiving an update request via a link from a computing node, the system may further redirect the update request to an update location associated with the link.

The present disclosure describes transaction-enabling systems and methods. A system can include a facility including a core task including a customer relevant output and a controller. The controller may include a facility description circuit to interpret a plurality of historical facility parameter values and corresponding facility outcome values and a facility prediction circuit to operate an adaptive learning system, wherein the adaptive learning system is configured to train a facility production predictor in response to the historical facility parameter values and the corresponding outcome values. The facility description circuit also interprets a plurality of present state facility parameter values, wherein the trained facility production predictor determines a customer contact indicator in response to the plurality of present state facility parameter values and a customer notification circuit provides a notification to a customer in response.

Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for storing electronic digital certificates associated with unique resources on a digital platform. The present invention is configured to electronically receive, from a computing device of a user, unique resource data, wherein the unique resource is either digital or physical, retrieve one or more electronic digital certificates associated with the unique resource, receive a request for rights to the electronic digital certificate associated with the unique resource from a second user, initiate a resource transfer, and update the electronic digital certificate on a distributed ledger to record the rights of the second user to the unique resource.