System and method for secure licensing for an information handling system

A method comprising:

• booting an information handling system to an operating system stored on a memory of a secure licensing device coupled to a port of the information handling system;
• establishing a secure wireless network connection between the secure licensing device and a licensing server;
• retrieving information regarding one or more hardware components of the information handling system;
• retrieving a first unique marker binding a first license key to the one or more hardware components of the information handling system via the plug;
• retrieving a second license key for a software program associated with information handling system from the licensing server;
• generating a second unique marker binding the second license key to the one or more hardware components, the second unique marker based at least on a unique hardware identifier and the second license key;
• storing the second unique marker on the information handling system;
• and
• transmitting the first unique marker to the licensing server to prevent further consumption of the first license key.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon one or more instructions, the one or more instructions configured to, when executed by one or more processors coupled to the computer readable medium:

• boot an information handling system communicatively coupled to the one or more processors via an external port of the information handling system;
• establish a secure wireless network connection between a network interface communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and a licensing server;
• retrieve information regarding one or more hardware components of the information handling system;
• retrieve a first unique marker binding a first license key to the one or more hardware components of the information handling system via the plug;
• retrieve a second license key for a software program associated with the information handling system from the licensing server;
• generate a second unique marker binding the second license key to the one or more hardware components, the second unique marker based at least on a unique hardware identifier and the second license key;
• store the second unique marker on the information handling system;
• and
• transmit the first unique marker to the licensing server to prevent further consumption of the first license key.