Protection unit for protecting an application against unauthorized use on a computer system

摘要

There is provided a protection unit for protecting an application (10) against unauthorized use on a computer system (2), wherein said protection unit (1) comprises a license model with at least one condition to be fulfilled and wherein said license model is implemented by a corresponding license control logic and said protection unit (1) will only allow the execution of the application (10) if said at least one condition of said license model is fulfilled, wherein the protection unit (1) is programmable and can load and execute license software code (7) for realizing said license control logic.