A method for managing a temporally limited licence to a computer application executable on a network component

摘要

The present invention is based on the object of providing a method for managing a temporally limited to a license to a network component executable computer application, in which it is ensured that a computer application after the expiration of the no longer reliably linzenzdauer for the further unanthorisierte use of available.This object is achieved according to the invention by a method in which:a) a linzenzdatensatz (lf) is produced, which at least the information about the to be licensed computer application, a licence period and a signature time point (cd) comprises;b) of the license data set (lf) of a license - server (ls) is read and on the basis of the information on the signing time point (cd) a date (rd) is determined for this computer application;c) the date (rd) with a for the network component (ne) defined system time (sc) for determining a current time base for the license - server (ls) is compared;d) by means of the comparison is determined whether the computer application on the basis of the actual time base and / or on the basis of the given license period (lp) is carried out,whereine) the date (rd) on the license - server (ls) is stored continuously updated and.In this way, the method according to the invention makes it possible with the license - server, which on the network component itself can be performed, on the basis of the determination of the reference and on the basis of data ..