New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue our theme of blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed. The first of the two applications assigned to Oracle discloses techniques for implementing a distributed ledger a blockchain cloud service. The second application discloses techniques by which source code can be linked to a compiled binary, guaranteeing the origin of the binary and ensuring traceability of the binary file back to the source code that originated it.
20200401578, "System and method for managing a blockchain cloud service," assigned to Oracle.
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for implementing a distributed ledger a blockchain cloud service. The blockchain cloud service can include nodes of the distributed ledger and a management console component. The management console component can include a web application running in a script runtime environment, a plurality of backend of APIs for communicating with various nodes of the blockchain cloud service, and a plurality of client APIs configured to be invoked by a client application. The plurality of client APIs uses one or more of the plurality of backend APIs in provisioning the distributed ledger as a blockchain cloud service, and in managing the managing the blockchain cloud service.
20200401678, "Digital asset traceability and assurance using a distributed ledger," assigned to Oracle.
Abstract
Various embodiments provide an apparatus, method, system, and/or instructions by which source code can be linked to a compiled binary, guaranteeing the origin of the binary and ensuring traceability of the binary file back to the source code that originated it. An example method includes determining a request to register a digital asset; computing a first hash of an initial source file of the digital asset; ascertaining a version of the initial source file; electing one or more nodes of a blockchain to commit the first hash to the blockchain in association with a version of the digital asset corresponding to the version of the initial source file; converting the source file into a binary file, resulting in a binary version of the digital asset; computing a second hash of the binary file; and committing the second hash to the blockchain in association with the version of the digital asset.
