Appeal 2007-0519
Application 10/723,324
3. Christiano (col. 6, ll. 34-37) describes a system for managing software
licenses comprising a license server that stores licenses. When a user wants to use
a particular program, a request for a license to operate the program is sent to the
license server. If the user is permitted to operate the program according to a license
policy, the server assigns a license for that program to the client computer system
and the user can then operate the program. The Christiano system takes corrective
action when the license is violated, including denying a license when the maximum
number of licenses for the program have been assigned (col. 7, ll. 9-11).
4. Christiano’s license server includes a database of license records. These
records may include software package and license descriptions (col. 9, ll. 44-50).
They may also include a key.
The “KEY” provides an authentication, such as an X-digit number or string
of characters, which allows the server process to verify that the package
description has not been tampered with.
Col. 11, lines 45-48.
5. According to Christiano (referring to Figure 9)
[i]f a license record is available in the database, then in optional step
163, the key stored in the found license record is verified to determine if the
license record has not been tampered with and is legitimate … . If the record
is not legitimate, then step 180 is implemented [i.e., step 180 = “Is there
another record in license database for requested product?”].
Col. 19, lines 17-25.
6. We cannot find, and Appellants have not shown where, in the Specification
the claim term “corrupted” is defined.
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