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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hin Ting Chui, Ontario, CA;
Jarett D. Stein, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);
Bradley C. Herrin, Apex, NC (US);
Xianjun Zhu, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Software for preventing fraud in digital content licensing and distribution using a distributed ledger technology. The software performs the following operations: (i) receiving a request for a license of a digital asset, wherein a record of the digital asset is stored in a first distributed ledger; (ii) verifying a consensus for the request of the license of the digital asset; and (iii) responsive to verifying the consensus for the request of the license of the digital asset: storing a transaction settlement record in a second distributed ledger, creating a sharded copy of the digital asset including a plurality of shards of the digital asset, and storing at least one shard of the sharded copy of the digital asset in the second distributed ledger with sharding instructions for reconstructing the digital asset from the sharded copy.