V.i. Labs Forms Technology Partnership with Uniloc USA.Partnership Integrates Device Locking Activation Technology With V.i. Labs' Software Protection Solution to Provide a Strong Defense Against Piracy WALTHAM, Mass. -- V.i. Laboratories Inc., a provider of software protection solutions for securing high value and mission critical applications, announced today a technology partnership with Uniloc USA, a leading provider of device locked product activation Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary computer software programs. Specifically, product activation refers to a method where a software application hashes hardware serial numbers and an ID number specific to the product's license (a software. The partnership will integrate Uniloc's patented device locking activation technology, softANCHOR[TM], with V.i. Labs' CodeArmor[TM] software protection solution - providing Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and embedded application An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. providers with a powerful anti-piracy solution. The technology integration Co delivered as a separate CodeArmor product extension Co will leverage the software protection capabilities of CodeArmor with softANCHOR device locking, enabling users to prevent overt piracy and license overuse overuse Health care The common use of a particular intervention even when the benefits of the intervention don't justify the potential harm or cost–eg, prescribing antibiotics for a probable viral URI. Cf Misuse, Underuse. or "inadvertent" piracy. V.i. Labs' customers will be able to implement the device locking technology without requiring changes to application source code or existing license enforcement systems. Uniloc's softANCHOR provides a secure and robust method for preventing the unauthorized installation and copying of software applications. Uniloc's patented technology is able to activate software based on a unique "device fingerprint" that is difficult to spoof See spoofing. spoof - spoofing and offers built-in intelligence to prevent unwarranted activations. Leveraging the CodeArmor application extension framework, softANCHOR technology can be easily incorporated into the CodeArmor protection process to enforce CodeArmor protection on authorized machines only. "The ease with which V.i. customers can apply our device locking technology to their existing software products made this partnership an obvious choice for us," said Michael Broderick, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Uniloc USA. "V.i. Labs' approach will significantly increase the adoption of our technology within the high value ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. market and provide V.i. customers with yet another layer of protection against piracy." "The two significant piracy issues our customers face are direct piracy attacks that bypass their software license enforcement systems and license overuse caused by spoofing (1) Faking the sending address of a transmission in order to gain illegal entry into a secure system. See e-mail spoofing. (2) Creating fake responses or signals in order to keep a session active and prevent timeouts. weak device activation approaches," said Joe Noonan, CEO and president of V.i. Labs. "By integrating Uniloc's technology with our own, we offer customers a single software protection solution that meets their anti-piracy needs without significant integration work." Availability Uniloc's device locking technology will be available as a separate CodeArmor product extension in early December. About Uniloc USA Uniloc USA ("Uniloc") is the technology leader in electronic "device recognition" for securing networks, data and digital content. Device recognition is the method of uniquely identifying a user device, such as a PC, server, game console See video game console. , smart phone or cell phone, by the naturally occurring, inherent physical imperfections of that device, and then incorporating that "device fingerprint" into access credentials or licenses. Uniloc's technology can identify devices with more comparable accuracy than human DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. . Uniloc is the inventor and holder of the seminal device recognition patent (US 5,490,216), and has over 10 related patents pending. About V.i. Laboratories (V.i. Labs) V.i. Labs provides software protection solutions that protect against the misappropriation misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any and theft of intellectual property resident in software applications. Through V.i. Labs' patent-pending technology, software vendors, embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. providers, enterprise organizations and government agencies are able to easily secure their software against the threat of piracy, tampering and theft, independent of where the applications are distributed. V.i. Labs is privately held and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. 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