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Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2016
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Joshua Daniel, London, GB;

Theo Dimitrakos, London, GB;

Gery Ducatel, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/602 (2013.01); G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer implemented method for validating use of a computing resource by a requester software component including: validating a characteristic of the requester; generating a first transaction defining criteria for consumption of the resource by the requester, the first transaction being encrypted with a private key from a public key/private key pair and being added as part of a block of transactions to a blockchain data structure; generating a subsequent encrypted transaction corresponding to a request of the requester to consume the resource, the subsequent transaction referring to the first transaction, wherein the subsequent transaction is validated by a transaction miner computing component from a plurality of miners by authenticating the transaction using the public key and verifying compliance with the criteria defined in each transaction.


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