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US 10,764,258 B2Granted
Blockchain infrastructure for securing and/or managing electronic artifacts
AssigneeARM IP Limited
InventorPaul Harry Gleichauf
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Abstract
Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for blockchain infrastructure for securing and/or managing electronic artifacts, such as implemented in connection with one or more computing and/or communication networks and/or protocols.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- electronically detecting an absence of one or more status-check messages regarding an artifact stored as a plurality of shards on a corresponding plurality of storage nodes on a network, said one or more status-check messages being detected in accordance with one or more contract rules defining at least one of the following for said artifact:
- a change of an ownership;
- a change of a license;
- a type of a license;
- a jurisdictional requirement;
- a condition for release;
- a type of a release;
- or any combination thereof;
- and
- communicating electronically to said plurality of storage nodes over said network a request to reconstitute said plurality of shards into said artifact based, at least in part, on said detected absence of said one or more status-check messages and said one or more contract rules, wherein said detected absence of said one or more status-check messages indicates that at least one of said one or more contract rules should be enforced,
- one or more of said electronically detecting or said communicating electronically at least partially occurring through use of one or more consensus mechanisms of one or more blockchains.
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An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors coupled to a memory to:
- initiate an electronic detection of an absence of one or more status-check messages regarding an artifact stored as a plurality of shards on a corresponding plurality of storage nodes on a network, said one or more status-check messages to be detected in accordance with one or more contract rules that define at least one of the following for said artifact:
- a change of an ownership;
- a change of a license;
- a type of a license;
- a jurisdictional requirement;
- a condition for release;
- a type of a release;
- or any combination thereof;
- and
- initiate an electronic communication with a request to said plurality of storage nodes over said network to reconstitute said plurality of shards into said artifact based, at least in part, on said detected absence of said one or more status-check messages and said one or more contract rules, wherein said detected absence of said one or more status-check messages indicates that at least one of said one or more contract rules should be enforced,
- one or more of said electronic detection or said electronic communication to at least partially occur through use of one or more consensus mechanisms of one or more blockchains.
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An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon executable by a special purpose computing platform to:
- electronically detect an absence of one or more status-check messages regarding an artifact stored as a plurality of shards on a corresponding plurality of storage nodes on a network, said one or more status-check messages to be detected in accordance with one or more contract rules that define at least one of the following for said artifact:
- a change of an ownership;
- a change of a license;
- a type of a license;
- a jurisdictional requirement;
- a condition for release;
- a type of a release;
- or any combination thereof;
- and
- communicate electronically to said plurality of storage nodes over said network a request to reconstitute said plurality of shards into said artifact based, at least in part, on said detected absence of said one or more status-check messages and said one or more contract rules, wherein said detected absence of said one or more status-check messages indicates that at least one of said one or more contract rules should be enforced,
- one or more of said electronic detection or said electronic communication to at least partially occur through use of one or more consensus mechanisms of one or more blockchains.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.