Method to minimize software piracy and enhance security in processes related with many industries

摘要

The presented invention is related particularly with to minimize and even further to block software piracy problems. The invention presented here can work for internet and traditional networking environments as well. The apparatus comprises a server program and client program. The server may be on LAN, WAN, Web or at some remote location. The client program is small program that needs to be embedded in the software that needs to be protected from illegal copies or the software that wants to use the invented process. The client program communicates with server program and receives response from the server. Depending upon the server clients performs certain actions such as allowed to install or to halt the installation. The invention architecture is based on TCP/IP based modeling. I.e. Server acts as TCP server and clients act as TCP clients in order to communicate effectively and reliably. Whenever the process begins, it is added as client on TCP server. The clients sends ID from media to server, server verifies the ID, update the ID and sends back the new ID to client. The client also updates the new ID so that all the copies with previous IDs become ineffective.