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access and utilize the device parameters in the same way as on the
device itself. Therefore, in the proposed framework we use a ticket-
based mechanism to validate the license and grant access for the exe-
cution of the mobile application in the cloud.
7.3.1 Entities
The following entities are involved in the proposed methodology.
User: The clients that use the mobile application are the users in the
proposed methodology. The users will purchase the mobile appli-
cation from the application provider. The users can execute the
mobile application either at the mobile device or at cloud at dif-
ferent points of time. The license needs to be enforced at both of
the sides.
Application provider: The application ...