Systems, devices, and methods for unlocking aerosol-generating devices

A method comprising:

• maintaining a database of user accounts and aerosol-generating devices associated with the user accounts, wherein each aerosol-generating device is only associable with a single user account;
• receiving a lock request from a present aerosol-generating device to lock an unlockable feature of the present aerosol-generating device, wherein the lock request comprises unique user-identification information identifying a present user account to be disassociated with the present aerosol-generating device;
• updating the database to disassociate the present user account with the present aerosol-generating device in response to reception of the lock request;
• and
• transmitting a lock grant to the present aerosol-generating device to lock the unlockable feature in response to reception of the lock request.

Computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having program code portions stored thereon, the program code portions configured, when said program product is run on a computer or network device, to:

• maintain a database of user accounts and aerosol-generating devices associated with the user accounts, wherein each aerosol-generating device is only associable with a single user account;
• receive a lock request from a present aerosol-generating device to lock an unlockable feature of the present aerosol-generating device, wherein the lock request comprises unique user-identification information identifying a present user account to be disassociated with the present aerosol-generating device;
• update the database to disassociate the present user account with the present aerosol-generating device in response to reception of the lock request;
• and
• transmit a lock grant to the present aerosol-generating device to lock the unlockable feature in response to reception of the lock request.