Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Gary Dean Iosbaker

Fabio Aiello

Michael R Kelly

Rob Wayne Heldenbrand

The disclosure relates an edge digital gate ('EDG') configured with entitlement services, universal identity repositories, and connection concentrator functions. The universal identity repositories each include a shared cache that together with other shared caches form a shared data environment ('SDE'). The SDE provides a distributed and shared cache used to chain together EDGs for operation as a blockchain network. The SDE may be check-pointed by stateless Virtual Network Functions (&#x201c;VNFs&#x201d;) executing on the EDGs responsive to service demand and access, thus facilitating distributed consensus for validating each transaction. Through SDE the stateless VNFs disperse transaction-status based on a smart contract, which enforce transactions associated with blockchain-based digital services to which access is provided by the EDGs. The activity relating to the transactions may be recorded on a decentralized ledger of a blockchain network, generating an immutable record of activity of the entity and secure storage of service data.

Carrier grade telecom blockchain

A system and method are provided for instantiating a blockchain in a telecommunications network. The method includes identifying a smart contract having S transactions; encoding the S transactions into a sub-blockchain; selecting K edge gate nodes of the telecommunications network from among N of the edge gate nodes according to an ant colony system algorithm, wherein each of the edge gate nodes operates at an edge of the telecommunications network, and wherein S&#x2264;K; and allocating the sub-blockchain as one or more virtual network functions among the K edge gate nodes.

Instantiation of a telco blockchain in a NFV environment

Examples herein retrieve a profile data corresponding to a mobile device from a first data repository in response to the mobile device entering a regional service area. The examples store the profile data in a second data repository. The second data repository is local to the regional service area.

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Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

Gary Dean Iosbaker