Patents by Inventor Hakki Bostanci

Hakki Bostanci has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140279550
    Abstract: An upgrade to a computer program is associated with a token which is in turn associated with the original key for the computer program. In particular, given the original key, a publisher provides a token for the upgrade which is digitally signed and associated with the original key. The token also can result in a license state for the upgrade that is different from the license state for the original computer program. The original key can be used in various business rules by the publisher to determine whether to issue the token and/or what license state to associate with the token. When the upgrade is run on the computer, the verification process authenticates the token, the original license and the original key and authorizes execution of the upgrade based on the token for upgrade. Multiple upgrades can use multiple tokens and the original key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning Zhang, Mikael Horal, Brian Perlman, Hakki Bostanci, Hariharan Jayaraman, Rama Krishnan Venkatachalam