Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for managing cloud services using smart contracts and blockchains
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Application No.: US16959661Application Date: 2018-04-17
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Publication No.: US11263204B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: James Kempf , Nanjangud Chandrasekhara Swamy Narendra , Sambit Nayak , Anshu Shukla
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.
- International Application: PCT/IB2018/052668 WO 20180417
- International Announcement: WO2019/155268 WO 20190815
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00 ; G06F16/23 ; H04L9/06 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L9/30 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
Methods and systems are disclosed for managing cloud services using smart contracts to facilitate various functions, such as tenant login, tenant enrollment, service registration, tenant usage charging, tenant usage tracking, tenant quota management, and tenant rights revocation. The proposed techniques allow tenant and service accounts to be represented as smart contracts, and for services to delegate authorization for bundles of service attributes to tenants and other services, for which the tenants and services are then charged. The business logic is implemented on a permissioned, distributed ledger (e.g., a private blockchain) and therefore is easily customized for specific classes of tenants and services.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210081404A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CLOUD SERVICES USING SMART CONTRACTS AND BLOCKCHAINS Public/Granted day:2021-03-18
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