Method for implementing a service in a service chain and electronic device associated thereto

Abstract

A method is described for implementing a current service of a chain of n services, the method including receiving, from the service preceding the current service in the chain, a first routing token comprising message routing data between the services in the chain, and verifying that the current service is a legitimate recipient of the first routing token. After implementing a function of the current service, the method also includes generating a current chaining token from a data of evidence of a passage through the current service, and transmitting, to the service following the current service in the chain, the current chaining token and a second routing token determined from the first routing token.

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