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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2021
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A control method according to the present disclosure is executed by a first server of servers in a system including one or more IoT devices and the servers. The method includes: obtaining first transaction data including operation notification information and time information from each of the IoT devices, the operation notification information including identification information on the IoT device and a notification indicating that the IoT device is operating, the time information indicating a time when the IoT device has obtained the operation notification information; transferring the obtained first transaction data to second servers different from the first server; executing a first consensus algorithm together with the second servers; and recording a block containing the first transaction data in a distributed ledger of the first server, when the authenticity of the first transaction data is verified by the first consensus algorithm.