Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. A rare 3-fur today. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques implementing a right to be forgotten on an immutable ledger. Assigned to Cisco, the second patent addresses techniques for decentralized content distribution. Assigned to Eluvio the third patent addresses techniques for a decentralized content fabric.
11,232,221, "Right to be forgotten on an immutable ledger," assigned to IBM.
Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a transaction request into at least one node of a blockchain network, the transaction request comprising one or more transaction parameters and one or more encryption keys, processing the transaction request to produce a transaction result, encrypting one or more parameters of the transaction result to produce an encrypted transaction result, storing the encrypted transaction result in a data block of the blockchain, and storing the one or more encryption keys in one or more key stores of the blockchain network.
11,234,033, "Decentralized content distribution," assigned to Cisco.
Abstract
In one embodiment, a computing device includes: a media player operative to at least play a content item on the computing device, a blockchain-based wallet application operative to transfer a transaction amount to a publisher wallet ID via an associated blockchain-based transaction service, a secure digital rights management (DRM) client application operative to verify the transfer of the transaction amount to said publisher wallet ID according to a public transaction ledger associated with the associated blockchain-based transaction service and upon successful verification of the transfer of the transaction amount to the publisher wallet ID at least unlock a locked version of the content item, and a processor operative to execute the media player, the blockchain-based wallet application, and the DRM client application.
11,233,734, "Decentralized content fabric," assigned to Eluvio, Inc.
Abstract
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, devices, computer program products, and methods implementing aspects of digital content retrieval using a decentralized content fabric. In some implementations, fabric nodes of an overlay network are provided. A first fabric node is configured to: determine, responsive to a client request for a content object part, that the content object part is not stored locally at the first fabric node; identify a second one or more fabric nodes as a best match; send a network request for the content object part to the second one or more fabric nodes; obtain the content object part from the second one or more fabric nodes; and process the content object part with further content object parts to produce the digital content for the client.
