Tiered Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Core Network

Patent №

US 10,348,488

Granted

2019-07-09

Filed 2017

Owner

SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15686312

A method of combining chains of blocks in a network. The method comprising, creating a plurality of birth blocks of a plurality of chains of blocks by a block foundry application in a network, where each birth block is associated with a chain of blocks that records events of a network entity, creating blocks by a plurality of nodes in the network, wherein the current block and the previous block are linked, terminating the chain of blocks by the network entity, wherein the entity sends a termination request to create an end block, creating the end block, wherein the end block is the final block of the chain of blocks, and in response to the creation of the end block, sending a request by the network entity to create a block of a meta-chain of blocks, and creating the block of the meta-chain of blocks by the plurality of nodes.

PlanningAI hardwareH04L 9/0637G06F 9/45558H04L 9/0643H04L 9/3239H04L 9/3297H04L 41/5054H04L 45/56H04L 45/64+11 more

AI classification

AI hardware0.81
Planning0.79
Knowledge representation0.46
Evolutionary computation0.03
Natural language0.01
Vision0.01
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.

assignment · 434140834

Assignors

PACZKOWSKI, LYLE W., BERTZ, LYLE T., BALES, MARK R

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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