US 10,310,918 B2Granted

Information sharing among mobile apparatus

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSanehiro Furuichi, Norie Iwasaki, Masami Tada, Takahito Tashiro

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Abstract

A method executed by a mobile apparatus for verifying event information to be shared is disclosed. The method includes communicating with a nearby mobile or immobile apparatus to generate a verification in response to encountering the nearby mobile or immobile apparatus. The method also includes verifying existence of an incident event in response to arriving at a place of the incident event. The method further includes publishing a verified incident event in order to add into an incident event distributed ledger used for managing event information related to the incident event.

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Dependent claims

A mobile apparatus for sharing event information, the mobile apparatus comprising:

a memory tangibly storing program instructions;
and
a processor in communications with the memory, wherein, by executing the program instructions, the processor is configured to:
select a remote incident event of interest, the remote incident event being associated with a first event management distributed ledger and a first account;
pay a reward for provision of event information about the remote incident event to the first account;
send a first reference request about the remote incident event to a first other mobile apparatus, the first other mobile apparatus being recorded in an existing verified event block of the first event management distributed ledger;
and
receive event content relating to the remote incident event from the first other mobile apparatus.

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