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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2019
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);
William M. Parsel, Overland Park, KS (US);
Robert L. Spanel, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of storing device information, provisioning data, and event information using distributed ledger technology (DLT). a manufacturer creates a first block of a first category comprising wireless communication device information, the block stored in a non-transitory memory of the device, a wireless communication service provider provisions device on a network, a server maintained by the wireless communication service provider creates a second block of a second category comprising information associated with the provisioning of the device, an application executing on the device stores the second block by in the non-transitory memory, creating a chain of blocks, the application uses at least part of the chain of blocks to provide authentication of the device to the network, and the block foundry server creates at least one block of a third category.