Using a blockchain to determine trustworthiness of messages between vehicles over a telecommunications network
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorAhmad Arash Obaidi
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described herein for configuring vehicles and infrastructure (e.g., buildings, smart homes, traffic devices, utilities and associated systems, emergency response systems, and so on) to include blockchain nodes, so a smart city or area of the various devices can be supported by a blockchain network, with some or all devices and systems provisioned with nodes acting as distributed nodes for the blockchain network.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by a computing system of a first vehicle, cause the computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a blockchain node within the computing system of the first vehicle, a message from a second vehicle within a vicinity of the first vehicle,
- wherein the message from the second vehicle includes information associated with a route currently traveled by the second vehicle;
- determining, via a blockchain operation performed by the blockchain node within the computing system of the first vehicle, whether the second vehicle is verified on a blockchain of a telecommunications network that facilitates communications between the first vehicle and the second vehicle;
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- responsive to the second vehicle being verified by the blockchain operation, performing an action by the computing system of the first vehicle based on the information associated with the route currently traveled by the second vehicle.
A method performed by a telecommunications network, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a blockchain node within a computing system of a vehicle, a message from a device within a vicinity of the vehicle,
- wherein the device is not within the vehicle;
- determining, via a blockchain operation performed by the blockchain node within the computing system of the vehicle, whether the device is verified on a blockchain of the telecommunications network,
- wherein the telecommunications network facilitates communications between the vehicle and the device;
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- responsive to the device being verified by the blockchain operation, performing an action by the computing system of the vehicle based on the message received from the device.
A system within a connected area network of an autonomous vehicle, the system comprising:
- a blockchain node that determines, based on information maintained by a blockchain of a telecommunications network that facilitates communication between the autonomous vehicle and one or more devices, whether information sent to the autonomous vehicle from the one or more devices in a vicinity of the autonomous vehicle is trustworthy information;
- at least one hardware processor;
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- at least one non-transitory memory, coupled to the at least one hardware processor and storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one hardware processor, perform a process, the process comprising:
- performing of an action at the autonomous vehicle in response to the information from the one or more devices when the blockchain node determines that the information is trustworthy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.