Systems and methods for managing networked commitments of secure entities

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of managing commitments between entities forming the nodes of a network, each entity being housed in a computer processing unit, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: establishing commitments (ENij) between commitment provider entities (Ei) and commitment beneficiary entities (Ej), one and the same entity being able to be both a commitment provider in relation to one or more other commitment beneficiary entities and a commitment beneficiary in relation to other commitment provider entities, upon the default of an commitment on the part of a defaulting commitment provider entity, noted from a beneficiary entity benefiting from this same commitment, communicating to the provider entity from said beneficiary entity, and at least one other entity (upstream entity) whose defaulting provider entity is beneficiary, an indication of default of a commitment, and, in response to this communication, altering at least one commitment whose defaulting provider entity is beneficiary. The invention is also aimed at various systems and methods capable, in a secure manner, of implementing programs or commitments which are executable at the level of a set of nodes of a network, for various applications.

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