Controlling access to technology based upon authorization
View Patent ↗Methods and systems are provided for facilitating control of access to technology to authorized parties. A licensor provides licensure information to an application developer that includes a private key and a license, the license including an application public key and an identifying mark associated with the licensor, e.g., a digital signature. The licensor additionally provides a licensor public key to an implementation developer. The application developer and the implementation developer subsequently write the received information into the respective application and implementation. At runtime, the application adds ephemeral data and an identifying mark associated with the application to the application license and forwards the marked extended application license to the implementation. The implementation then validates the ephemeral data, the licensor's identifying mark and the licensee's identifying mark. Once all information is validated, the marked extended application license is validated and the licensed application may expose the licensed technology to a user.
1. One or more computer-storage memory media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a processor of a second party, causes the processor to perform a method for preparing a marked extended license for validation, the method comprising:
receiving, from a first party, an application private key for creating an identifying mark associated with the second party, the identifying mark being capable of being validated;
receiving a license object from the first party, the license object including a license, an application public key for validating the identifying mark associated with the second party, and an identifying mark associated with the first party;
incorporating at least a portion of the license object into an application, wherein the at least a portion of the license object comprises the license;
adding ephemeral data to the incorporated at least a portion of the license object to create an extended license, wherein the ephemeral data comprises data that expires after a period of time;
adding the identifying mark associated with the second party to the extended license to create a marked extended license; and
forwarding the marked extended license to a third party for validation.
2. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises incorporating the license object into an application prior to adding the ephemeral data, or incorporating the extended license into an application prior to adding the identifying mark.
3. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 1 , wherein the identifying mark associated with the first party is an electronic signature of the first party, and wherein the electronic signature of the first party is configured to be validated.
4. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 1 , wherein the identifying mark associated with the second party is an electronic signature of the second party.
5. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 1 , wherein the license further includes at least one additional information item associated with the first party.
6. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 1 , wherein the first party is a technology licensor, the second party is an application vendor and the third party is an implementation vendor.
7. One or more computer-storage memory media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a processor of a second party, causes the processor to perform a method for preparing a marked extended license for validation, the method comprising:
receiving, from a first party, an application private key for creating an identifying mark associated with the second party;
receiving, from the first party, a license object, the license object including a license, an application public key for validating the identifying mark associated with the second party, and an identifying mark associated with the first party;
incorporating at least a portion of the license object into an application, wherein the at least a portion of the license object comprises the license;
creating an extended license including the license, the application public key, the identifying mark associated with the first party, and ephemeral data comprising data that expires after a period of time, wherein creating the extended license includes adding the ephemeral data to the incorporated at least a portion of the license object;
creating a marked extended license including the extended license and the identifying mark associated with the second party, the identifying mark associated with the second party being capable of being validated, wherein creating the marked extended license includes adding the identifying mark associated with the second party to the extended license; and
forwarding the marked extended license to a third party for validation.
8. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 7 , wherein the identifying mark associated with the first party is an electronic signature of the first party, and wherein the electronic signature of the first party is configured to be validated.
9. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 7 , wherein receiving a license object from the first party, the license object including information for validating the identifying mark associated with the second party, comprises receiving a license object including an application public key.
10. The one or more computer-storage memory media of claim 7 , wherein the license further includes at least one additional information item associated with the first party.