US 10,762,516 B2Granted

Trusted platform and integrated BOP applications for networking BOP components

AssigneeThe Dun & Bradstreet Corporation

InventorsEoin Lane, Anjana Bhattacharyya, Yuan Niu, Xin Yuan, Nipa Basu

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Abstract

Embodiments are directed to a trusted platform powered by a client-side company application that implements a Business Organizing Principle (“BOP”) for a company and distributed immutable ledger, which provides the company with secure transactions and transaction data. The application's Business Organizing Principle identifies the business components for a company (e.g., HR, marketing, suppliers, etc.) which the application identifies as core, medium-core, and non-core. The application can then suggest and link the business to other businesses on the network based on matching BOP components. The platform's scoring engine uses the ledger's trusted transactions to generate a BOP network score and “local score” to augment traditional thereby creating a quickly developed trusted ecosystem for horizontal B2B integration between not just businesses, but business components.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A system for providing a trusted network platform comprising:

a system including one or more processors, a memory operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, and a computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by at least one of the processors, the system being configured to support a client application for a trusted network platform, the application comprising:
a Business Organizing Principle (“BOP”) module for a client business entity, the BOP module comprising a BOP tool for identifying a plurality of BOP components for the client business entity based on firmographic data for the client business entity, the BOP tool comprising a tool for distinguishing core BOP components from other BOP components,
a BOP component matching module configured to generate matching information based on the firmographic data for the client business entity, wherein the BOP component matching module is configured to at least:
match a BOP component of the plurality of the BOP components for the client business entity to at least one other scored business entity that can provide goods or services to the client business entity for that matched BOP component, wherein the BOP component is matched to the other scored business entity based on one or more trusted scores for the other scored business entity,
generate a BOP component network link between the BOP component for the client business entity and the other matched scored business entity, and
match the BOP component with at least one other BOP component of the at least one other scored business entity based on at least one score of the other BOP component, wherein the BOP component of the at least one other scored entity is based on firmographic data of the at least one other scored business entity,
a scoring tool configured to provide one or more trusted scores for a business, the scores including:
a BOP network score, wherein the BOP network score is derived from validation data between the BOP components, the validation data being derived from at least one distributed immutable ledger shared with the client business entity registered to the application;
wherein the scoring tool is configured to use matching information from BOP component matches to calculate at least one score for the business.

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A method comprising:

provide an entity rating score for each of a plurality of business entities registered to a business network platform;
providing an application that is configured to:
create a Business Organizing Principle (“BOP”) for a client business entity, the BOP comprising a plurality of BOP components based on firmographic data for the client business entity,
record application usage and transaction data on a distributed immutable ledger, wherein the distributed immutable ledger is configured with encrypted blocks of ledger data, where each ledger block is encoded with a hash of a prior block;
select one or more other scored business entities, BOP components, or both matched to the BOP component by a BOP matching module based on the firmographic data for the business entity, the BOP matching module being configured to at least:
match a BOP component of the plurality of the BOP components for the client business entity to at least one other scored business entity that can provide goods or services to the client business entity for that matched BOP component, wherein the BOP component is matched to the other scored business entity based on one or more trusted scores for the other scored business entity,
generate a BOP component network link between the BOP component for the client business entity and the other matched scored business entity, and
match the BOP component with at least one other BOP component of the at least one other scored business entity based on at least one score of the other BOP component, wherein the BOP component of the at least one other scored entity is based on firmographic data of the at least one other scored business entity;
record one or more transactions with the selected business entity and/or BOP component on the distributed immutable ledger;
provide at least one BOP network score generated for the businesses registered on the BOP network platform based on BOP component transactions recorded on the distributed immutable ledger facilitated by the application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/671,747Filed 8 Aug 2017 · us provisional application
Priority: 8 Aug 2016
Published: US 2018/0040007 A18 Feb 2018
Granted: 1 Sep 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 30/0201
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
G06Q 10/0637
Operations research, analysis or management: strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions…
G06Q 10/42
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of affinities or common interests between users
G06Q 20/382
Payment protocols; Details thereof: insuring higher security of transaction