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- Patent Title: Electronically verifying a process flow
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Application No.: US16884623Application Date: 2020-05-27
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Publication No.: US11356275B2Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- Inventor: Enriquillo Valdez , Richard H. Boivie , Venkata Sitaramagiridharganesh Ganapavarapu , Jinwook Jung , Gi-Joon Nam , Roman Vaculin , James Thomas Rayfield
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Law Office of Jim Boice
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40 ; H04L9/32 ; G06F30/398 ; G06F21/62 ; G06K9/62 ; G06N3/02 ; H04L9/06

Abstract:
A method verifies an authenticity, integrity, and provenance of outputs from steps in a process flow. One or more processor(s) validate one or more inputs to each step in a process flow by verifying at least one of a hash and a digital signature of each of the one or more inputs. The processor(s) then generate digital signatures that cover outputs of each step and the one or more inputs to each step, such that the digital signatures result in a chain of digital signatures that are used to verify an authenticity, an integrity and a provenance of outputs of the one or more steps in the process flow.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210377042A1 ELECTRONICALLY VERIFYING A PROCESS FLOW Public/Granted day:2021-12-02
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