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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2012
Applicant:

Ben-gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, IL;

Inventors:

Ofer Hermoni, Yavne, IL;

Niv Gilboa, Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL;

Shlomi Dolev, Omer, IL;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3202 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for resolving disputes between users in network communications using digital arbitration. The method comprising the steps of agreeing on a contract between the users and choosing a set of arbitrators; appealing to the arbitrators by a first user, if he/she suspects the second user violates the agreement; and giving the information needed to reconstruct a resource of the second user, if a large enough number of arbitrators agree that the second user actually violated the agreement.


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