LICENSE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

A license management apparatus including an issuing unit configured to generate and issue a license identifier and license information, the license identifier being associated with a product identifier of at least one purchased program and also with the license information for the purchased program; a storing unit configured to store the license identifier in a license information storing unit; a determining unit configured to receive a license identifier via a network, and to determine whether the license identifier is stored in the license information storing unit; and a sending unit configured to send via a network instruction information to acquire the purchased program or a program entity corresponding to the product identifier associated with the license identifier, and to also send via a network a license file configured to allow usage of the purchased program, in the case that the license identifier is stored in the license information storing unit.