Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20100325149
Filing Date: June 18, 2010Priority Date: June 22, 2009
Inventors: Craig Stephen Etchegoyen
Assignee(s): Uniloc USA, Inc.
Current U.S. Classification: 707, 707/769000, 709, 709/217000
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A method for auditing the use of software on a computing device, the method comprising:establishing a communication link between a data collection server and the computing device;receiving at the data collection server from the computing device, via the communication link, data including (a) a software identifier identifying the software, (b) a device identifier identifying the computing device, and (c) an event identifier identifying a usage event performed by the software;accessing a database storing previously received and associated software identifiers, device identifiers, and event identifiers; andupdating the database to include the received data.
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Title IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL
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A description of Ariadne, a system for tracking originality metadata and the data structure used to implement the tracking mechanism.
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