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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);
Brant D. Thomsen, South Jordan, UT (US);
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
There is provided a method of validating a first computing device based on copies of a distributed database storing a trust parameter indicative of a trusted or untrusted designation for network connected second computing devices, the method performed by a certain second computing device designated as trusted, comprising: receiving a validation request for designation as trusted transmitted by the first computing device designated as untrusted, querying trust-resource(s) to determine whether the first computing device should be designated as trusted or untrusted, when a trust parameter is obtained from the trust-resource, creating a new record storing the trust parameter of the first computing device, a first unique identifier indicative of the first computing device, and a second unique identifier indicative of the certain second computing device, and distributing the new record over the network for local verification and updating of respective copies of the distributed database.