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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2018
Applicants:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Europe B.v., Weybridge, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SONY EUROPE B.V., Surrey, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2013.01); H04L 47/78 (2013.01); H04L 47/783 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for providing a virtual device has a circuitry. The circuitry searches for resource devices providing characteristics of a set of characteristics of the virtual device in a distributed ledger. The distributed ledger includes information about multiple resource devices. The circuitry provides the virtual device by selecting resource devices providing characteristics of the set of characteristics of the virtual device.