Software license management system and management method

A software license management system comprising:

• a computer network;
• one or more computers connected to the computer network, each provided with a receiving unit for receiving an e-mail and a browser for blowing a web page;
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• a license management server connected to the computer network,
• the system being configured to manage a license of a predetermined software installed on at least one of the one or more computers or another computer not connected to the computer network,
• wherein the license management server further includes:
• a) a license information storage unit configured to register information capable of identifying the predetermined software and information capable of identifying a license holder in one-to-one correspondence;
• b) a transfer acceptance request reception processing unit configured to create a transfer license confirmation screen including an entry field for entering an e-mail address of a license transfer destination user and display the transfer license confirmation screen on a display unit of a computer, the computer being one of the one or more computers, in response to a license transfer request via the computer network from a license holder of the predetermined software on the computer;
• c) a web page creation unit configured to create a license acceptance processing web page for the predetermined software upon reception of a predetermined operation following entry of an e-mail address of a license transfer destination user on the transfer license confirmation screen;
• d) an access information notification unit configured to send information accessible to the web page created by the web page creation unit by means of an e-mail address entered on the transfer license confirmation screen via an e-mail to a computer of a license transfer destination user, the computer being one of the one or more computers;
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• e) a license transfer processing unit configured to, upon performance of a license acceptance operation on the license acceptance processing web page browsed via the browser on the computer of the license transfer destination user who has received the mail, change the license holder of the predetermined software registered in a license information storage unit to the license transfer destination user.