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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2021
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Naohisa Nishida, Osaka, JP;
Junichiro Soeda, Nara, JP;
Yuji Unagami, Osaka, JP;
Junji Michiyama, Fukuoka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A fault monitoring method is executed by a monitoring device in a fault monitoring system that includes a terminal used by a user, an appliance to be operated by the user, the monitoring device, and a plurality of authentication servers each including a distributed ledger, and includes: obtaining event information stored in the plurality of authentication servers and indicating an event generated in response to a request that includes a processing instruction for the user operating the appliance; obtaining state information indicating whether the appliance is faulty, from the appliance; generating first transaction data including the state information obtained and transmitting the first transaction data to the plurality of authentication servers; and transmitting the processing instruction included in the event information to the appliance, when the appliance is determined to be not faulty from the state information.