Method and apparatus for management of an automated license
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1. the license file the Setup program continues with the appli cation as if the license file had not existed as will be described in further detail below in reference to FIG 4 Alternatively in step 115 if the license file is determined to be valid in step 130 current license information is checked Here the Setup program will detect whether a floating and or node locked license is installed on the user equipment Such information will be presented to the user and the user will be asked whether or not to update or reload the license in step 135 If the user does not wish to update reload the license file the program exits If as before the user chooses to update the license file program ming continues as if there was no license file uploaded on the server Referring now to FIG 4 in the instance where there is no license file located on the server as determined in step 110 of FIG 1 or the user desires to update reload and or replace the license file as determined in steps 125 and 135 respec tively of FIG 3 in step 140 the Setup program presents the US 7 363 318 B1 5 license management installation options to the user These options consist of an automatic installation an e mail instal lation and or a manual installation option If the user chooses either an e mail and or manual installation option in step 145 the Setup program presents the user with setup pages for e mail and or manual installation If however the2. current applica tion is once again unable to obtain a license and identifying the particular error Once again as in step 305 the user is instructed to contact their own system administrator The Setup program will then exit If it is determined in step 310 that the license is a floating license and that the license installation is one of an end user in step 320 a dialog box is presented to the user stating that the current application is unable to obtain a license and that the error is whatever the error determined to be The user is further requested as to whether the user would like to configure the license management now If not the Setup program exists If so processing continues in step 20 as shown in FIG 2 Referring to FIG 7 a system using the automated license management Daemon and license database interface within the automated license management installation process is shown A Setup program 700 resides on a user client com puter system 705 The Setup program communicates through network 710 e g the Internet World Wide Web to the program application download server 740 by means of a post request to the appropriate web server tunneling agent Such request is sent through the network 710 and through a corporate firewall 720 to a port 730 Port 730 is a port specifically reserved for HTTP protocol requests and US 7 363 318 B1 7 responses Firewall 720 filters all requests except through ports handling HTTP and FT
3. the HTTP port and a firewall the tunneling agent configured to receive the post requests from the HTTP port an automated license daemon program which resides on the remote server system the automated license dae mon configured to receive the user information from the tunneling agent and a first database which resides on the remote server system and on which is stored license information and a license file the first database configured to receive a request from the automated license daemon program and return a reply the reply including one of the license informa tion the license file and an error message wherein the automated license daemon is further config ured to send a reply HTTP message based on the reply to the setup program over the network using the HTTP port 16 The system according to claim 15 wherein the setup program is further configured to install the license file on the client computing systems when the setup program receives the license file 17 The system according to claim 15 further comprising a second database on which resides a master copy of license information and license file from which an extract is made and becomes the source for the first database 18 The system according to claim 17 wherein the infor mation on the second database and the first database are updated independently and then synchronized
4. user chooses the automatic installation option in step 150 the Setup program requests permission from the user for a database query Thus the user is asked to allow the Setup program to query the program application download server to request a license file for the host in step 155 If the user chooses not to allow the Setup program to query the server the Setup program returns to step 140 and defaults to the e mail installation option of the license management instal lation options If on the other hand the user gives permission to allow such query of the database in step 160 a series of steps are conducted as shown in FIG 5 to retrieve and install the license file from the program application download server As mentioned above in regard to step 85 of FIG 1 such installation steps of the license file also occur in response to an affirmative answer with respect to a permission query to allow the Setup program to query the database Accordingly referring now to FIG 5 the procedure for the Setup program to retrieve and install a license file from the program application download server is shown In step 165 a determination of whether a pin number is required for security is made If a pin number is required in step 170 the user is presented with a dialog box requesting the pin number to configure the license management installation If no pin number is entered or the user desires to cancel the Setup program exists If however a pi
5. wrsLicense Query db to get license info for current host wrs database License Information Host Name lt host gt Host ID lt host ID gt Displays products lic available lic on cur host and edit box for lic request ns License Confirmation Displays lic available lic to request and license type that the use has requested TED license info Update database to obtain a license file a License File Mr Ins amp ill License file to WIND_BASE wind license Fie 5 FIG U S Patent Apr 22 2008 Sheet 5 of 7 US 7 363 318 B1 U S Patent Apr 22 2008 Sheet 6 of 7 US 7 363 318 B1 from application with LM Error dialog box 4305 lt app gt is unable to obtain a license The error is XXXXXXX Piease contact license admin at wrs lt phone gt Yes dialog box lt app gt is unable to obtain a license The error is XXXXXXX Please contact your sys admin to update your license file Floating license No server NL exit Yes end user 320 dialog box lt app gt is unable to obtain a license The error is XXXXXXX Would you like to configure LM now No gt exit Yes U S Patent Apr 22 2008 Sheet 7 of 7 US 7 363 318 B1 The setup program wil use a POST requestto Corporate Firewall Pit Various CGI tuneirg agents are invoked here that will then open SEE D a bi directional s
6. 2 2008 Sheet 3 of 7 US 7 363 318 B1 License file update LM Dialog box 2S License File is No gt exit invalid Would you like to replace it Yes Current License Information Setup has detected that a floating and or NodeLocked license is installed on the current host at port XXXX 30 Your current available licenses are Tornado Floating 2 WV NodeLocked 1 Update license No gt exit file Yes Ll gt rae S OO U S Patent Apr 22 2008 Sheet 4 of 7 US 7 363 318 B1 Request a license file No license file LM installation Options 4 Email amp Phone Setup pages for email and phone DB Query Permission SO Do you allow setup to query the wrs db to request a license file for this host No default to Email choice Get and install license file from WRS See page 5 for more details LM Startup 21S Start LM Daemon as o Services o Startup Group o Manuall O Determine type on current License Management has been successfully installed Please set LM_LICENSE_FILE to lt license file path gt Get and install license file from WRS Require PIN exit Yes Pr 72 Cancel Dialog box Please enter your PIN to configure LM PIN lt edit box gt 135 Valid PIN N Dialog box Invalid PIN Please re enter it again fe Yes Gs host host id
7. As modifications can be made to the license management configuration in either the automated license installation database 760 or the corporate database 770 information in the two databases 760 770 is kept consistent with each other through a synchronization strategy Such database synchro nization strategy includes a conflict detection and conflict resolution methodology using a time stamp sequencing validation as a prerequisite to any license database update a proactive notification process a matchback methodology to each synchronization source using an identical unique ID value of the system and a second chance logic methodology The component of the database synchronization strategy that utilizes the matchback methodology to each synchronization source utilizing the same unique ID value of the system operates for instance utilizing a field identifier in which any update made in a license record that exists in both the license installation database and corporate database will ensure that a change is entered into the correct row in each database A change transaction is passed between the databases utilizing the field ID value to access the record For example a matchback methodology utilizing a unique ID in the case where a table in the corporate database e g a wrslp_li cense_keys table is done through an accompanying iden tification field e g a wrslp_license_key ID field An update in this example is passed utilizi
8. Im End User Manual GLOBEtrotter Software Inc Oct 1996 pp 82 cited by examiner Primary Examiner Apu Mofiz Assistant Examiner Susan Chen 74 Attorney Agent or Firm Fay Kaplun amp Marcin LLP 57 ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for management of an automated license installation is presented An automated license dae mon runs on a server waiting for transmissions connections from a client based Setup program The Setup program utilizes a tunneling agent to make a socket connection with the automated license daemon Upon such transmission connection the automated license daemon begins a thread for each license request each thread creating a number of SQL queries with information that is received from the Setup program These SQL queries are sent to an automated license management database for validation After valida tion a license file is returned from the automated license database to the automated license daemon and then back to the Setup program client 18 Claims 7 Drawing Sheets Error msg No gt and exit Do you allow setup to query thel wrs db to obtain license info of U S Patent Apr 22 2008 Welcome LM Options Installation Options o Full installation o Program Group o FL Server Installation FL Server Inst Sheet 1 of 7 US 7 363 318 B1 end user FlexLM software Have outside Taare Error msg installed connection and exit PQ
9. P protocol message traffic The Setup program post request is passed through a corporate Intranet 745 to the various corresponding compo nents of the program application download server 740 These components consist of the license management Dae mon 750 the license installation database 760 a corporate database 770 which may for example correspond to an Oracle or Olympus database and various CGI tunneling agents 780 The license management Daemon 750 formats the Setup program s 700 request to the license installation database 760 An application of database 760 then handles the request from the license management Daemon 750 and returns the appropriate reply It is to be understood of course that the various components of server 740 are not restricted to residing solely on the server and may in fact reside elsewhere e g on other serves or as stand alone components As access to the license installation database 760 by the Setup program 700 is in effect direct the program can make changes to the license installation database 760 On the other hand however changes to the corporate database 770 are made manually by sales license and key administrators For system integrity the changes in each database must be synchronized in the other such that transactions made on either one are replicated in the other and that manual changes to the corporate database 770 itself are reflected back to the license installation database 760
10. Setup is about to install Yes FlexLM files onto the local host SO Dest dir lt edi Do you allow setup to query the Yes Yeg wrs db to obtain license info of LM Files copy RS Copy FlexLM files onto the dest dir Allows setup to query wrs db License file exists s i No WIND_BASE wind license exists OD Yes You have chosen not to query wrs db Please exit eee contact WRS to obiain a license file U S Patent Apr 22 2008 Sheet 2 of 7 US 7 363 318 B1 Set the vaiue of LM_LICENSE_FILE DB Query Permission AG Do you allow setup to query the wrs db to obtain license info of this host o Yes o No You have chosen not to query wrs db Please check with your sys admin for the sever host and port being used and set LM_LICENSE_FILE to port host exit Allows setup to query wrs db Yes 3 5 Query db to get all servers wis database List box to displays available hosts and license details Controls to allow user to add remove Dialog box Setup has detected that Imgard is not ruming on host xxxx LM Registration Setup will now write the license info to the registry LM_LICENSE_FILE lt host gt Write license info to registry type on current host Unix LM Finish i LM has been successfully configured Plese set LM_LICENSE_FILE to port host 1 exit eee 4 U S Patent Apr 2
11. US007363318B1 a2 United States Patent Dere et al US 7 363 318 B1 Apr 22 2008 a0 Patent No 45 Date of Patent 54 75 73 21 22 51 52 58 56 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF AN AUTOMATED LICENSE INSTALLATION Inventors William Dere Alameda CA US Sue W Dere Alameda CA US Assignee Wind River Systems Inc Alameda CA US Notice Subject to any disclaimer the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U S C 154 b by 560 days Appl No 09 621 400 Filed Jul 21 2000 Int Cl GO6F 7 00 2006 01 GO06F 17 00 2006 01 GO6F 9 445 2006 01 US Cl iets een as 707 104 1 707 10 717 174 Field of Classification Search 384 4 384 25 395 710 713 709 200 221 710 5 10 707 104 See application file for complete search history References Cited U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 5 790 664 A 8 1998 Coley et al woe 380 4 Welcome Installation Options o Full Installation o Program Group o FL Server Installation FL Server inst FlexLM software installed Setup is about to install FlexLM files onto the Yes Copy FlexLM files onto the dest dir no License file exists SWIND_BASE wind icense exists Yes LM Files copy 2S 6 006 035 A 12 1999 Nabahi eeesseeseeseseee 6 067 582 A 5 2000 Smith et al 6 108 420 A 8 2000 Larose et al oo OTHER PUBLICATIONS FLEX
12. ate handler threads sending filtered information in the form of SQL queries to the license database receiving a license file or error codes from the license database after validation sending the license file to the Setup program and sending an error message to the Setup program if validation fails Referring now to FIG 1 a user wishing to utilize the automated license installation will start the Setup program on the user client s computing system and in step 5 will see the welcome screen of the Setup program In step 10 the Setup program will offer the user three license management installment options The first option is a full installation US 7 363 318 B1 3 option the second option is a program group installation and the third option is a floating license server installation option Should the user decide to choose either the full installa tion option or the program group option in step 15 license management options are presented In this step the user will be given the option to configure license management for a single end user on a network or to configure license man agement for a node locked license use Configuration for the single end user on the network would allow a local server i e at the customer site to distribute the appropriate licensed software while configuration for a node locked license would indicate restriction to one machine without a network Referring now to FIG 2 if the user chooses to configu
13. cording to the present invention both a method and an apparatus of for managing an automated license installation for user computing equipment is provided According to the method of the present invention at least one license instal lation option is provided to the user client and license information of the user client server is retrieved from a license database The user client server is queried on a configuration of the retrieved license information and the retrieved license information is confirmed with the user client server Also according to the method of the present invention a license file relating to the confirmed license information is installed According to the apparatus of the present invention a Setup program is provided which resides on the user client server Also provided is an auto mated license Daemon program with which the Set up program communicates and a license database on which is stored license information and from which at least one license can be retrieved and then installed on the user client server The present invention including its features and advan tages will become more apparent from the following detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIGS 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 illustrate a flow chart of a Setup program incorporating code which allows a customer to configure and request licenses from an automated license Daemon according to an embodiment
14. ense file that allows the host to serve floating licenses The Setup program incorporates a code to unlock and install programs applications from a CD ROM or other media or to request programs applications from the pro gram application download server The program application download server includes in this case an automated license Daemon Upon a bi direction socket connection through the HTTP tunneling operation a request is sent and validated by a connected license database Upon receipt of the license download request and validation the Setup program resid ing upon the user client computing system will receive a license file i e a license to run use a corresponding soft ware application and a new configuration is then entered into the ERP database The Setup program acts as a client program which sends user information e g such as user name company name license s assigned hostName host ID etc to the program application download server and receives back items e g such as error message s license file etc The automated license Daemon on the other hand is a multi threaded program running continuously on the program application download server in a fashion that is bootstrapped to the server so that the Daemon runs whenever the server re boots The automated license Daemon is responsible for among other things receiving a request type from the Setup program forwarding that request type to the appropri
15. ep 40 the Setup program runs a license management configuration page Configuration consists of a list box displaying available hosts and license details and allows the user to control adding and or removing of hosts In step 45 the license management diagnostic program Imdiag is run on the selected host If the license manage ment diagnostic program fails in step 50 a dialog box presents that Setup has detected that a license management daemon is not running on the selected host and the Setup program returns to the license management configuration as in step 40 If on the other hand the license management diagnostic program run of step 45 is okay in step 55 a determination of the type of host of the selected host is conducted If the current host is determined to be a Win dows type host in step 60 license management registration begins The Setup program then writes the license informa tion into the Windows registry of the selected host as is accomplished in step 65 Upon accomplishment of writing license information to the registry or upon a determination that the current host is a Unix type host in step 70 license management is finished The user is presented with a mes sage that license management has been successfully config ured On Unix hosts a message reminds the user to set the license management license file environment variable e g LM_LICENSE_FILE while on Windows hosts the license management license file e
16. led license file is valid and performing one of an updating operation and a replace ment operation with respect to the previously installed license file 10 The method according to claim 9 further comprising the step of querying the client computing system on whether one of the updating operation and the replacement operation is to be performed with respect to the previously installed license file 11 The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of determining if a network connection exists to the client computing system 12 The method of claim 1 further comprising sending a message requesting license information 13 The method of claim 12 wherein the message includes at least one of a host ID license number and request code 14 The method of claim 1 wherein the retrieved license information includes at least one of available licensed prod ucts host ID information port number information number of licenses available and number of licenses currently installed 15 A system for managing an automated license instal lation on a client computing system comprising 20 25 30 35 10 a setup program which resides on the client computing system the setup program configured to send post requests containing user information using hypertext transfer protocol HTTP over a network to an HTTP port a tunneling agent which resides on a remote server system accessible via the network and having
17. ly and secure In the foregoing description the method and apparatus of the present invention have been described with reference to a number of examples that are not to be considered limiting Rather it is to be understood and expected that variations in the principles of the method and apparatus herein disclosed may be made by one skilled in the art and it is intended that such modifications changes and or substitutions are to be included within the scope of the present invention as set forth in the appended claims The specification and the drawings are accordingly to be regarded in an illustrative rather than in a restrictive sense What is claimed is 1 A method of managing an automated license installa tion on a client computing system the method comprising the steps of retrieving license information of the client computing system from a license database located on a remote server receiving a selection of a configuration of the retrieved license information confirming the configuration of the retrieval license infor mation on the client computing system and receiving one of a license file relating to the confirmed configuration of the retrieved license information and an error message 2 The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of requiring an entry of a valid PIN number 3 The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of requiring an affirmative permission of the client compu
18. n number is entered in step 175 a determination of whether the pin number is valid is made If in step 180 it is determined that the pin number is invalid the user is presented with a dialog box stating that the pin number is invalid and to please re enter the pin number again as the Setup program returns to step 170 If it is determined in step 175 that the pin number is valid or if it is determined in step 165 that a pin number is not required in step 185 the Setup program queries the license database to get the license information for the computing equipment running the setup program This consists of sending a host ID customer license number other relevant data and a request code to the license database The pro gram application download server either returns an error message to the Setup program or returns the license infor mation If the license information is returned in step 190 a license configuration entry form either for floating or node locked license management software configuration modes is dis played for the user to fill out The license configuration entry form consists of a display of the available license products the number of licenses available the number of licenses currently residing on the host equipment and an edit box for any license requests In step 195 license confirmation occurs License confirmation consists of displaying a sum mary of the license configuration requested by the user and how many licen
19. ng the ID value to access the record Alternatively a matchback methodology in an insert situation in which there are independent ID s to access a record uniquely in all systems involved means there is no co dependency from ID assignment That is if the wrslp_license_key ID were the unique ID used in both databases every insert situation would require that the inserting database retrieved the next value from a pool common to both databases Moreover at synchronization time there could be the risk of a duplicate ID error The second chance logic component of the database logic component of the database synchronization strategy is trig gered when the update to the site fails because of an error other than a data error A connection failure would cause 0 a 5 20 25 40 45 55 65 8 second chance logic to kick in This facility writes out a transaction to be used in re submission of the modification During the re submission time stamp sequencing logic is used to determine if the transaction should be allowed to go through or be inactivated and flagged for administrators attention With respect to the exemplary embodiment according to the present invention a user client now has the ability to directly access a program application download server through HTTP tunneling without recourse of a third party web server and use of a web browser Accordingly such communication and downloading is far more time
20. nvironment variable is set in the Windows registry The program then exits It is to be 10 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 4 understood of course that the host types utilized herein are exemplary and that other types of hosts may be utilized such as Linux Mac etc Referring back to FIG 1 if in step 15 however the user chose the license management option of a node locked variety in step 75 it is determined whether or not an outside connection over the Internet exists If no outside Internet connection exists an error message is presented and the Setup program exists Alternatively if an outside Internet connection is determined to exist in step 80 the Setup program asks for permission to conduct a database query In this case the Setup program is asking the user to allow the Setup program to query the program application download server to obtain license information for the user s equipment in step 85 If the user does not allow such a query in step 90 the license management application exits according to an exit menu Such an exit menu may include an instruction to manually contact the program application download server license administrator s to obtain the correct license file If the user does allow such a query the license management application continues as shown in FIG 5 which steps will be described in more detail further below Continuing however with a description of the Set
21. ocket to the ALD US 7 363 318 B1 1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF AN AUTOMATED LICENSE INSTALLATION FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to improvements to a method and apparatus for the management of an automated license installation and more particularly to a method and apparatus for an automated license daemon and database interface in a three tiered client server management system allowing for automated license installation BACKGROUND INFORMATION In many cases before programs and or applications can be downloaded over the Internet by a user client that user client is often required to provide personal information to allow a validation of sorts to use the program application This is especially true where the program and or application is proprietary Collection of such personal information via the Internet telephone or by some other means often requires manual entry of the information with such manual entry prone to errors Where the program application is proprietary and a license is required for its use errors from manual entry of data can cause disruptions and or delays in the use of the program application Correction of such disruptions and or delays must also be done manually is time consuming and often cannot be done at night or on the weekends Accord ingly such disruptions and or delays are injurious to licen sor licensee business relations SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Ac
22. of the present inven tion 0 25 35 40 55 60 2 FIG 7 illustrates an apparatus by which a client may request and receive a license download through the Setup program from the automated license Daemon according to an embodiment of the present invention DETAILED DESCRIPTION FIGS 1 through 7 show a method and apparatus for an automated license installation by which a Setup program residing on a user client computing system connects to an automated license Daemon and database residing on a program application download server It is to be understood of course that the Setup program may be programmed in any computer language such as for instance C C and ECL According to the present invention the Setup program uses a web server tunneling agent to directly connect through a bi directional socket connection with a program application download server without the use of a web browser or the need to go through a third party server HTTP tunneling is well known in the art and allows messages and web pages to be passed back and forth through a dedicated Internet server port A direct socket connection through the use of HTTP tunneling allows a customer to configure downloading based on a data store that is in an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system Further a user is able to use a set up graphical user interface to configure and receive an ERP generated license file that is tied to the current host or a lic
23. re license management for a single end user on a network the code to determine the contents of the license management license file variable e g LM_LICENSE_FILE is entered In step 20 then the user is prompted for permission to query the license database In this step the user is being asked whether to allow the Setup program to query the program application download server to obtain license information regarding the user s computing equipment If in step 25 the user does not wish to allow the Setup program to conduct such a query in step 30 the license management application will exit Additional instructions can be given to check with a system administrator to obtain the user s server host and port number being used so that the appropriate license management license file variable can be set to the proper setting If however in step 25 the user allows the Setup program to query the program application download server in step 35 the Setup program queries the license database to get all authorized local server hosts e g more than one server may be involved as more than one project utilizing licensed software may be involved As shown in this figure such query is made of the license database which returns license configuration information such as host ID s port numbers host names products licensed licenses used etc that is stored in the database Upon retrieval from the license database of the pertinent information in st
24. ses for each product is to be allocated for this machine In step 200 the updating of the license database to obtain the license file occurs This consists of sending license information to the license database and returning a license file Accordingly in step 205 the license file is installed to the appropriate location in the user client com puting system Referring back to FIG 4 the Setup program having retrieved and installed the appropriate license file from the 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 6 program application download server and license database in step 210 determines the type of host that the current host is If it is determined that the current host is a Windows type host in step 215 license management startup is con ducted The license management Daemon may start as a service a startup group and or a manual startup In step 220 the appropriate registry variable is set Upon proper setting of the file in the registry or if the current host is determined to be a Unix type host in step 225 the license management finishes In this case a dialog box is presented to the user that states that the license management installation has been completed successfully and requests the setting of the license management license file path The user has now been provided with the opportunity to retrieve install and successfully set up a license from the program application download server and license da
25. tabase Having completed the foregoing steps dependent upon the initial installation option the user may utilize the licensed program Referring now to FIG 6 the error handling facility that is embedded as a library within a license managed application program is shown Thus when a licensed application encounters a license management error or the Setup pro gram application detects a license management error an error processing operation occurs If an error is determined to have occurred in step 300 a determination of whether the error can be corrected by the Setup program is conducted If the error cannot be corrected by the Setup program in step 305 the user is presented with a dialog box stating that the current application is unable to obtain a license and identi fying the particular error The user is further instructed to contact the license administration at a particular address and or phone number Accordingly the Setup program licensed application will then exit If it is determined that the error can be corrected by the Setup program the Setup program is invoked and run In step 310 a determination of whether a floating license has been and or is installed is determined If it is determined that installation is a floating license server problem e g there is no server running or a license file is not installed or an invalid node locked license installation in step 315 a dialog box is presented to the user stating that the
26. ter system before retrieval of license information from the license database 4 The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of determining whether a flexible license management utility software is installed on the client computing system and installing the flexible license management utility software on the client computing system if the flexible license management utility software is determined as not being installed on the client computing system 5 The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of updating the license database based on the configuration of the retrieved license information 6 The method according to claim 1 further comprising providing at least one license installation option on the client computing system wherein the at least one license installation option includes at least one of a full license installation a program group installation and a floating license installation US 7 363 318 B1 9 7 The method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of determining an operating system of the client computing system 8 The method according to claim 7 further comprising the step of configuring the operating system of the client computing system for the automated license installation by setting an environment variable of the operating system 9 The method according to claim 1 further comprising the steps of determining whether a previously instal
27. up program in FIG 1 if after the welcome screen in step 5 the user chooses in step 10 the floating license server installation option in step 95 a determination as to whether flexible license management software e g FlexLM is installed is made If the flexible license management software is not installed in step 100 a license management utility installa tion occurs The user is queried as to the destination direc tory into which the Setup program should install the flexible license management software files onto the local host Upon determination of the directory by the user in step 105 the license management application files are copied into the destination directory Upon installation of the flexible license management software or if in the case that the flexible license manage ment software was pre installed in step 110 a determination as to whether the license file exists is made Referring now to FIG 3 if the license file exists in step 115 a determination is made as to whether the license file is valid That is a determination is made as to whether or not the license file needs to be updated If the license file is not valid in step 120 a license management dialog box is created in which the user is informed that the license file is invalid and is asked whether the user would prefer to replace it in step 125 If the user does not wish to replace the license file the program exits If the user does in fact wish to replace
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