Service management apparatus, program, and service management method

摘要

To enable fine management of sharing of a license among devices depending on a property of the license even when the license is owned by the same user, provided is a service management apparatus including: a user storage unit which stores a user and at least one terminal associated with the user; a license information storage unit which stores a license including a terminal to be permitted to use a predetermined service and license information for identifying a setting limitation; a setting request reception unit which receives a setting request to set the license including information for identifying the terminal that has issued the setting request and the user of the terminal; an associated terminal identification processing unit which identifies the terminal that is associated with the user included in the setting request; a license identification processing unit which identifies the license that each terminal to be identified is permitted to use and is settable to the terminal that has issued the setting request; and a license setting processing unit which sets the identified license to the terminal that has issued the setting request.