US Patent:
20080065551, Mar 13, 2008
Inventors:
NIMA NIAKAN - ALAMO CA, US
LINDY LO - MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, US
SCOTT BAEDER - AUBURN MA, US
Assignee:
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC. - SAN JOSE CA
International Classification:
H04L 9/00
Abstract:
In a system and method for automatically detecting licensed computer products, a license manager stores contract data indicating a customer and one or more computer products licensed to the customer by a license holder. A customer site is automatically checked for present computer products owned by the license holder. The licensed computer products are compared to the present computer products. In one embodiment, the computer products are software products, but they also may be hardware products.