Recordation of device usage to blockchains

Inventors

Snow, Paul

Assignees

Inveniam Capital Partners Inc

Abstract

A personal blockchain is generated as a cloud-based software service in a blockchain environment. The personal blockchain immutably archives usage of any device, perhaps as requested by a user. However, some of the usage may be authorized for public disclosure, while other usage may be designated as private and restricted from public disclosure. The public disclosure may permit public ledgering by still other blockchains, thus providing two-way public/private ledgering for improved record keeping. Private usage, though, may only be documented by the personal blockchain.

Core Innovation

A cloud-based blockchain service receives device usage information together with a privacy parameter and a device identifier. The service receives a first service request that includes first usage information, the privacy parameter, and the device identifier, and receives a second service request that includes second usage information and the device identifier. The service determines a chain identifier corresponding to the device identifier and determines whether each service request comprises the privacy parameter.

The service generates hash values of the first and second usage information by hashing the usage information using a hashing algorithm. The service generates a first data record associated with the device identifier that comprises the first hash value and a first indication that the first usage information is private, and generates a second data record associated with the device identifier that comprises the second hash value and a second indication that the second usage information is public. The service records the first data record and the second data record to a personal blockchain associated with the device identifier.

Based on determining that the second service request does not comprise the privacy parameter, the service generates a third data record that comprises the second usage information and adds the third data record to a block associated with the device identifier. The service records the block to a public blockchain by adding the block to a chain of blocks associated with the chain identifier. In response to the first service request and the second service request, the service sends service responses that include information of what was recorded in the personal blockchain and, for the second service request, also what was recorded in the public blockchain.

Claims Coverage

The partial content includes two independent claims, a method and a system. Both claims center on selectively recording device usage information across a personal blockchain and a public blockchain using hash values, privacy parameter determination, and device- and chain-associated blockchain recording, with responses indicating the recorded results.

Across both independent claims, the inventive coverage is the cloud-based selective ledgering mechanism that uses privacy-parameter determination, hashing, and privacy/public indications to record to a personal blockchain while conditionally recording usage content to a public blockchain, with blockchain association via device and chain identifiers and responses reflecting what was recorded.

Stated Advantages

Documented Applications

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