Abstract: A first-party vendor provides a licensed first-party service on one or more electronic devices, the first-party service associated with a licensed third-party service provided by a third-party vendor on the electronic devices. A cloud service of the first-party vendor may host one or more third-party license keys that are securely accessible to the first-party service, each third-party license key pointing to a corresponding global third-party license issued by the third-party vendor for access to the third-party service on the electronic devices. In some examples, distribution of a third-party license key to a particular device may be based on a current affinity of that device to a particular third-party license type, as determined from a mapping agreed upon by the first-party and third-party vendors between one or more types of first-party licenses and one or more types of third-party license, and from the first-party license type currently associated with the device.

Abstract: Methods and systems for management of licenses for licensed features activatable on a server. In response to receipt of a request for activation of a requested feature on the server, a license count and a feature usage count are determined. It is determined whether the license count is sufficient to satisfy the request. When the license count is sufficient to cover the request, activation of the requested feature on the server is allowed. Otherwise, the request is refused.