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Computer-implemented systems and methods for linking a blockchain to a digital twin

AssigneenChain Licensing AG

InventorsAlexandra Covaci, Giuseppe Destefanis, Simone Madeo, Patrick Motylinski, Stephane Vincent

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Abstract

A computer implemented method and system is described which uses blockchain technology as a storage system for data acquired from a digital twin. The blockchain can be used to generate an immutable transaction history of data produced by the digital twin. In the case of an error, failure, incident, or accident, parties of interest can then access and analyse an immutable set of data. The blockchain network can also execute a digital smart contract based on the data received from a digital twin. The invention may be used in conjunction with the Bitcoin blockchain or another blockchain protocol.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for a blockchain network, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, at a receiving node of a blockchain network, a sequence of discrete messages generated from a stream of data from a digital twin;
and
verifying the sequence of discrete messages for subsequent storage of transactions in a blockchain, the transactions containing data associated with the sequence of discrete messages, wherein the sequence of discrete messages is received through two secure channels whereby a comparator is able to verify if the sequence of discrete messages sent over the two secure channels is consistent, and wherein if the sequences of discrete messages received from the two secure channels is different, the receiving node rejects the sequence and sends a notification to retransmit the sequence of discrete messages.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/771,990Filed 12 Jul 2024 · continuation
Priority: GB 17181822 Nov 2017
Published: US 2025/0097039 A120 Mar 2025
Granted: 6 Oct 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04L 9/3215
Including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity…: using…
G06F 16/27
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database…
G06F 21/64
Protecting data: protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
H04L 9/0637
Block ciphers, i.e. encrypting groups of characters of a plain text message using fixed encryption transformation: modes of operation, e.g. cipher…

Family

Application16/761,201Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Oct 2018
PCT/IB2018/058259Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Oct 2018
Application18/130,721Parent of this continuation · filed 4 Apr 2023
US 11,652,634 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 16 May 2023
US 2025/0097039 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Mar 2025
US 12,081,671 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2020/0295936 A1Published application
US 2023/0318836 A1Published application
US 12,756,569 B2This patent

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