ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SERVICES BY COMPETING CLIENTS Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC G06F12/14 

FIELD: physics; computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to server systems which help subscribers in tracking and administration. The architecture allows for withholding regular and periodic service for all, except a selected number of clients existing at the same time, related to a subscriber, and without administration of a list of specific computers manually on a server. Instead of requiring an administred list, the system detects which clients are active, enters active clients into an active list and leaves out all clients which are not in the active list. The system includes one or more rules, compulsory implementation of which provides a mechanism for guaranteeing that, a subscriber does not add an unlimited number of clients and does not rotate clients into a pool and from the pool for efficient maintenance of services on a number of computers more than that, for which the subscriber is authorised.

EFFECT: wider functional capabilities for offering services on a server.

25 cl, 11 dwg