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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Chainyard Supplier Management, Inc., Morrisville, NC (US);
Mohan Venkataraman, Morrisville, NC (US);
Sai Nidamarty, Morrisville, NC (US);
Shyam Charit Adivi, Morrisville, NC (US);
Alex Rosen, Morrisville, NC (US);
Gary Storr, Morrisville, NC (US);
Stephen John Rogers, Raleigh, NC (US);
Derek Lamar Harrison, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Vishnu Praneeth Tadepalli, Cary, NC (US);
Daniel J. Schaefer, Raleigh, NC (US);
Other;
Abstract
This document presents a system and method for presenting vetted and verified Supplier information to Buyers. The Know Your Suppler (TYS) Application collects previously vetted and verified Supplier information and commits the collected information, verification authorities, verification details, and transaction information to a shared distributed ledger implemented as a privately permissioned blockchain. Buyers who want to onboard a newly identified Supplier, or update Supplier information with more recently verified information records, may subscribe to the TYS Application and purchase available vetted and verified Supplier information to optimize the onboarding or updating process for Suppliers from whom the Buyer wants to purchase goods or services.