How exactly does the concurrent license model work?

How exactly does the concurrent license model work?

Imagine your organization has a pool of licenses and the licenses added together total to 15 license seats. This means that up to 15 people may use ATLAS.ti simultaneously.

- When the first user starts ATLAS.ti Web or ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac application, it contacts our license server and the system will allocate one seat for this user and there will be 14 seats left.
- When another user starts ATLAS.ti Web or ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac, the system will allocate one seat for that user as well and there will be free 13 seats left.
- When a user closes ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac, the application contacts the license server and tells the that the user is no longer using ATLAS.ti. This will free the previously allocated seat and it will be added to the pool of free license seats.
- If the ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac application crashes before it is closed and before it can tell the license server to free it, the seat remains allocated until a timeout period expires. When the timeout period expires, the license seat is automatically freed and returned to the pool of free seats. The timeout period is at the time of writing 8 hours.
- If the ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac application crashes and the user restarts it, the license server will reuse the previously allocated license seat and no additional license seats will be used. When the user later closes the application, the seat will be freed normally and there is no need to wait 8 hours for it to be freed.
- If a user is currently using ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac and the same user starts the ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac application on another computer, then an additional license seat will be allocated. This means that the user will be allocated and block two seats.
- If several users are using ATLAS.ti for Windows or Mac on the same computer (application server or terminal server), each user will be allocated and block a license seat.