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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:
Sep. 01, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Eric Kass, Mannheim, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3297 (2013.01); G06F 16/1805 (2019.01); G06F 16/1834 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a document server, a hash of data generated by an author registered with a blockchain, sending, by the document server, the hash of the data to a timestamp authority (TSA) to be time stamped, receiving, by the document server, a timestamp reflecting when the hash of the data was received by the TSA and forwarding the timestamp to the author, receiving a combination of the hash of the data and the timestamp (time/hash) signed by the author and forwarding the time/hash to the blockchain, receiving, by the document server, the time/hash signed by the TSA, and forwarding the time/hash signed by the TSA to the blockchain.


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