LICENSE ISSUING SYSTEM, LICENSE INFORMATION ISSUING SERVER AND LICENSE MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrict license information issuing such that an application having a sales area different from a device sales area is not installed to a device to prevent the fraudulent copy or the installation of an application commodity.;SOLUTION: This license information issuing server 101 has: a machine body number inspection means inspecting whether a machine body number is within a range of the machine body number associated with an inputted commodity identification number or not on the basis of the machine body number and the commodity identification number inputted from a user terminal 102; and a license key issuing means issuing a license key when the machine body number is within the range of the machine body number associated with the inputted commodity identification number as the result of the inspection of the machine body number inspection means.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI