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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Donal Carpenter, Wicklow, IE;
Carlos Martins Rodrigues, Shankhill, IE;
Tomislav Lokas, Ranelagh, IE;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for recording purchase transactions, including: receiving a purchase order request that is associated with a purchase order, the purchase order request being received from a purchaser-side system, the purchase order request including purchase information identifying a product, a product quantity, and a first order identifier that is assigned to the purchase order by the purchaser-side system; generating a transaction document in response to the purchase order request, including the purchase information into the transaction document, and recording the transaction document in a document sharing platform or shared cryptographically protected ledger; and progressively updating the transaction document with information provided by the purchaser-side system and a seller-side system as the purchase order is being fulfilled, wherein each update to the transaction document is recorded in the cryptographically protected ledger.