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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Elli Androulaki, Zurich, CH;

Mircea Gusat, Langnau, CH;

Ioannis Koltsidas, Zurich, CH;

Maria Soimu, Langnau, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/401 (2013.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06Q 20/065 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is notably directed to methods, systems and computer program products for securing data operations in a computerized system comprising interconnected nodes, wherein the nodes are configured to transmit, receive and store data, and wherein the method comprises executing computerized cryptographic methods to implement two or more proofs of work that comprises: provably crawling, from each node of at least a subset of the interconnected nodes, a respective subset of data stored on nodes of the system; and provably acquiring, at each node of the subset, data in the subset of data.


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