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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kenta Shinohara, Musashino, JP;
Noritaka Horikome, Musashino, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A number management unit () of a number management system () generates a transaction to be managed in a blockchain based on number portability information obtained by receiving a number update request, generates a block obtained by aggregating multiple transactions, approves a suggested block by confirming normality of the block, and stores the block by connecting the block to a blockchain in a number database (). If a reset of the block in the number database () is suggested, the number management unit () transmits, to multiple number management apparatuses (), a reset suggestion block including, as a transaction, a reset suggestion, which is information indicating a suggestion for a reset, and if the reset suggestion block is approved, the number management unit () discards the blockchain in the number database ().