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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:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 26, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);

Ashish Kundu, Elmsford, NY (US);

Ajay Mohindra, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Vijay K. Naik, Pleasantville, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/927 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/826 (2013.01); H04L 41/5035 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01); H04L 47/803 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Managing a service is provided. Information is collected about use of a set of resources by the service. A request is received to verify information regarding a selected portion of a period of time during the use of the set of resources by the service. In response to receiving the request to verify the information regarding the selected portion of the period of time during the use of the set of resources by the service, a description of the use of the set of resources by the service during the selected portion of the period of time is generated using the collected information. A response to the request is created using the generated description of the use of the set of resources by the service during the selected portion of the period of time as proof of validity of the information.


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