What script can I write to keep MATLAB running?

My office has a set number of licenses for MATLAB so you need to wait until one opens up to use it and if you don't use yours for a few minutes you lose it. One way around this is to write a short script that keeps MATLAB executing some arbitrary function in the background so it always appears to be doing something.

I am brand new to MATLAB and a relatively novice programmer, though, and I wasn't given any suggestions on how to do this. Does anyone have any ideas or examples of how I might do this?

[Taner Cokyasar]

Hello, I am not really sure if I got your question correctly. But, if you really want MATLAB always work on something, you can create an infinite loop on a file and run it. Thus, it always processes something.

For example:

Open up a new script and run this. I believe, it will be running forever.

 i = 1;
 for j = 1:inf
     k = i;
 end

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

It is possible to set a usage timeout for MATLAB licenses, but the minimum timeout that can be set is 4 hours. If a location were timing out licenses faster than 4 hours of non-use, then the location would be in violation of the Mathworks license agreement:

5. LICENSE RESTRICTIONS.  The License is subject to the express restrictions
set forth below and any other restrictions set forth in any signed agreement
between MathWorks and Licensee. Licensee shall not, and shall not cause or
permit any Affiliate or any Third Party to, directly or indirectly:

    5.20. mechanize or automate the process of checking out or in license keys
    for one or more Programs, including by running a second session of a
    Program, running a Program to serve multiple users, or rebooting the
    License Manager, for a principal purpose of minimizing the License check
    out time of any Programs, or otherwise circumventing the intended License
    Manager operation;