公开(公告)号：US11218313B1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-04

申请号：US16704914

申请日：2019-12-05

Applicant: Equinix, Inc.

Inventor： Srinivasan Raghavan ,  Sreekanth Narayanan ,  Neeraj Kumar Kukreti

IPC: H04L9/32 ,  H04L9/06 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A trusted device is positioned within a private consensus network. The trusted device includes a memory and processing circuitry in communication with the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain, from a private distributed ledger associated with the private consensus network, rules associated with the private consensus network, the private distributed ledger being accessible only to devices positioned within the private consensus network, to identify one or more other trusted devices positioned within the private consensus network, to receive, from an unidentified device positioned within the private consensus network, an identity verification request to identify the unidentified device within the private consensus network, to determine, based on the obtained rules, whether to approve or deny the identity verification request, and to communicate, to the one or more other trusted devices, a vote indicative of the determination of whether to approve or deny the identity verification request.

公开(公告)号：US11238448B1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16361091

申请日：2019-03-21

Applicant: Equinix, Inc.

Inventor： Sreekanth Narayanan ,  Danjue Li ,  Imam Sheikh ,  Chen Xi

IPC: G06Q40/00 ,  G06Q20/38 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  G06Q20/40 ,  G06Q20/06

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include use of a distributed ledger to arrange for and/or initiate provisioning of network services, and also to validate payment for such network services. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes modifying, by a computing system, a distributed ledger maintained by a consensus network to implement a smart contract that is configured to generate, in response to receiving a request for network services, a provisioning request; receiving the provisioning request, by the computing system and from a computing device on the consensus network that is executing the smart contract, wherein the provisioning request includes information describing requested network services; and provisioning, by the computing system and based on the information describing the requested network services, network services.