The USB hardware licence dongle (as shown in Figure 1) is a small hardware device that plugs into a USB port on a host computer to provide licence information to our software.
Figure 1
Our dongles are based on an advanced microprocessor smart chip which has been certified by EAL4+ and ITSEC. The dongles register with the operating system as an HID (Human Interface Device). The generic HID drivers will be installed when they are first inserted. As they require no external device driver during installation, this minimises the common technical issues which surround the use of hardware licences. Once the HID device driver has been registered, simply inserting the USB dongle into a spare USB port prior to launching the application will allow the software to launch in a registered state.
 | The LKMU (Licence Key Management Utility) is only for the registration and installation of static licence key files and is NOT aware of USB hardware licences. Running the LKMU will not show whether the USB dongle has been inserted and is active. |