New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed.Assigned to Intertrust (Hi Dave), the first application discloses techniques for facilitating the secure recording and use of assertions made by entities regarding other entities. Assigned to Amit Biyani, the second application discloses techniques for a shared and synchronous time series identification that matches a hardware clock-generating signal of a blockchain identified node device, with a generated data event time stamp and shared by all computing nodes participating in a complete system based on a blockchain design pattern and protocol.
20190273617, "Trust and identity management systems and methods," assigned to Intertrust Technologies.
Abstract
The disclosure relates to, among other things, systems and methods for facilitating the secure recording and use of assertions made by entities regarding other entities. Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods provide mechanisms to make assertions in an authentic and authoritative manner and enable discovery and reliance on those assertions using trusted distributed ledgers and/or derivatives of the same. Various embodiments may be used in connection with establishing security associations and/or secure communication channels between entities and/or the secure management of governed electronic resources.
20190273623, "Systems and methods for a blockchain multi-chain smart contract time envelope," assigned to Amit Biyani.
Abstract
A system for a shared and synchronous time series identification that matches a hardware clock-generating signal of a blockchain identified node device, with a generated data event time stamp and shared by all computing nodes participating in a complete system based on a blockchain design pattern and protocol. A blockchain cybersecurity system time signature is applied to synchronize the device level ID or device chain; this time sync is matched to the client master clocking time signal governing data transactions on the data event level or event chain. The combination of these two disparate blockchain mechanisms is termed as a multi-chain application. The matched time signals now provide referenced smart contract time sequencing. This matched time sequencing is unique and customized in its application to a multi-chain block chain cyber security application.
