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US 2024/0257154 A1Published application
Licensed feature counter
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPaul L Jeran, Jesse Otto Sutherland
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to modifying a counter associated with a licensed feature, modifying the counter upon an occurrence of an event, determining whether the counter has passed a threshold value, and, in response to determining that the counter has passed the threshold value, causing the licensed feature to become unlicensed.
Claims15
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- modify a counter associated with a licensed feature;
- modify the counter upon an occurrence of an event;
- determine whether the counter has passed a threshold value;
- and
- in response to determining that the counter has passed the threshold value, cause the licensed feature to become unlicensed.
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A method comprising:
- receiving an update to a stored list of identifiers associated with valid replaceable components;
- modifying a counter associated with a licensed feature according to a size of the update to the stored list of identifiers;
- modifying the counter associated with the licensed feature upon an occurrence of an event;
- determining whether the counter has passed a threshold value;
- and
- in response to determining that the counter has passed the threshold value, causing the licensed feature to become unlicensed.
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A system, comprising:
- a counter engine to:
- modify a counter associated with a licensed feature, and
- modify the counter upon an occurrence of an event;
- a feature engine to:
- determine whether the counter has passed a threshold value,
- in response to determining that the counter has passed the threshold value, cause the licensed feature to become unlicensed;
- and
- a component engine to:
- validate a newly installed component of the system,
- update a list of component identifiers associated with valid replaceable components for the system, and
- provide an increment value to the counter engine based on a size of the list of component identifiers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.