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- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for incentivizing participation in fog networks
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Application No.: US16211029Application Date: 2018-12-05
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Publication No.: US11184446B2Publication Date: 2021-11-23
- Inventor: Richard Cameron Murphy , Fa-Long Luo
- Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Gazdzinski & Associates, PC
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W4/24 ; G06F16/22 ; H04L9/06 ; G06Q40/00 ; H04L12/14 ; H04L12/24 ; H04W84/18

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for incentivizing device participation within a distributed network. In one exemplary embodiment, devices of a fog network may provide for example, computational, storage, and/or network resources in exchange for fungible tokens. In one such variant, the user contributions are recorded in a blockchain data structure, thereby enabling users to be compensated for their contributions of resources to the network at a later time. Unlike traditional networking techniques which often rely on centralized networks directing and/or commandeering user equipment for network bandwidth, the various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to ensuring that crediting and debiting of participation can be performed at the edge of the network (within the fog) without requiring authentication or trust exchanges. More directly, various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to verification and/or validation of work performed by peer devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200186607A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INCENTIVIZING PARTICIPATION IN FOG NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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