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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Senthil Thiagrajan, Westborough, MA (US);
Sudhir Vijendra, Westborough, MA (US);
Stephen Todd, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A distributed ledger is maintained in accordance with an enterprise. The distributed ledger includes a plurality of nodes such that one or more entities internal to the enterprise and one or more entities external to the enterprise each have access to at least one of the plurality of nodes. Electronic agreements (for example, product/service licenses) between at least a portion of the one or more entities internal to the enterprise and at least a portion of the one or more entities external to the enterprise are managed in association with the distributed ledger. Management includes generating and recording transactions associated with the electronic agreements on the distributed ledger to enable the one or more entities internal to the enterprise and the one or more entities external to the enterprise permissioned access to one or more of the recorded transactions.