Title:
METHOD FOR PROTECTING A SOFTWARE USING A SO-CALLED DETECTION AND COERCION PRINCIPLE AGAINST ITS UNAUTHORISED USE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003012571
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for protecting, from a unit, a vulnerable software against its unauthorised use, said vulnerable software operating on a data processing system. The method consists in defining: at least one executing characteristic of the software, capable of being monitored at least partly in a unit; at least one criterion to be observed for at least one executing characteristic of the software; detection means to be implemented in a unit and enabling to detect whether at least one software executing characteristic does not observe at least one associated criterion; and coercion means to be implemented in a unit for informing the data processing system and/or modifying the execution of a software when at least one criterion is not observed.
Inventors:
CUENOD JEAN-CHRISTOPHE (FR)
SGRO GILLES (FR)
SGRO GILLES (FR)
Application Number:
PCT/FR2002/002343
Publication Date:
January 22, 2004
Filing Date:
July 04, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
VALIDY (FR)
CUENOD JEAN-CHRISTOPHE (FR)
SGRO GILLES (FR)
CUENOD JEAN-CHRISTOPHE (FR)
SGRO GILLES (FR)
International Classes:
G06F1/00; G06F21/12; G06F; (IPC1-7): G06F1/00
Domestic Patent References:
| WO1999066387A1 | 1999-12-23 |
Foreign References:
| US5754646A | 1998-05-19 | |||
| FR2634917A1 | 1990-02-02 |
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