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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
May. 03, 2018
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Robert Ghanea-Hercock, London, GB;
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Abstract
A computer implemented method of validating use of a computing resource by a an executing requester software module from a plurality of discrete software modules, the method including validating a characteristic of the requester software module; generating a first transaction defining criteria for consumption of the computing resource by the requester software module, 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 software module to consume the computing 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.