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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2020
Wickr Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US);
Joël Alwen, Vienna, AT;
Thomas Michael Leavy, River Edge, NJ (US);
Christopher A. Howell, Freehold, NJ (US);
WICKR INC., Pleasanton, CA (US);
Abstract
A decentralized system for securely registering, updating, and/or resolving domain names in a distributed ledger is disclosed. The distributed ledger may comprise a smart contract that includes a look-up table that maps network names to network addresses and/or one or more keys. The smart contract may verify whether any updates and/or changes made to an entry in the look-up table are cryptographically authorized. Additionally, the smart contract may enforce any additional policies implemented by a domain administrator for authenticating changes and/or updates to a domain name entry. The unique combination of storing domain information in a decentralized ledger and validating changes and/or updates to the domain information provides a decentralized root of trust that allows for secure queries of network names (e.g., domain name) for secure cross-entity communications.