Method and system of administering user rights of a software program that can be increased in number in an emergency
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorKouji Yamamoto
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Abstract
An administrative method of user rights that can expand a volume license of a software program through a computer network and an administrative system of user rights utilizing the same. A licensee of the software program can obtain additional user rights without undertaking ordinary procedures of the licensing agreement and quickly increase the number of end-users even in an emergency such as a natural disaster.
Claims14
A method of administering user rights of a software program that can be increased in number, comprising:
- a step of a user right administrative apparatus of determining whether a predetermined event has occurred;
- a step of said user right administrative apparatus of informing a licensee of the occurrence of said predetermined event;
- a step of said licensee of acquiring expansion information that causes said user right administrative apparatus to revise user right information indicating a maximum number of users permitted to use said software program;
- a step of said licensee of providing said expansion information to said user right administrative apparatus;
- and
- a step of said user right administrative apparatus of revising, in response to a reception of said expansion information, said user right information stored therein.
An administrative system of user rights of a software program that can be increased in number, comprising:
- a communications unit;
- a secondary storage unit;
- and
- a central processing unit that determines whether a predetermined event has occurred, informs a licensee of the occurrence of said predetermined event, and revises, in response to a reception of an expansion information, user right information stored therein,
- wherein
- said licensee acquires said expansion information that causes said user right administrative apparatus to revise said user right information indicating a maximum number of users permitted to use said software program;
- and
- said licensee provides said expansion information to said user right administrative apparatus.
An administrative system of agreement information of a software program in which user rights can be increased in number, comprising:
- a communications unit;
- an secondary storage unit;
- and
- a central processing unit that retrieves, in response to a reception of information of an occurrence of a predetermined event, agreement information indicating a maximum number corresponding to said software program and a licensee, and generates an expansion information that causes an administrative apparatus of user rights.
A computer readable recording medium storing a computer program that administers user rights of a software program that can be increased in number, wherein said computer program causes a computer to:
- determine whether a predetermined event has occurred;
- inform a licensee of an occurrence of a predetermined event;
- and
- revise, in response to a reception of expansion information, user right information stored therein;
- wherein
- said licensee acquires said expansion information that causes to revise said user right information indicating a maximum number of users permitted to use said software program;
- and
- said licensee provides said expansion information to said computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.