公开(公告)号：US10924280B1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16384872

申请日：2019-04-15

Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.

Inventor： Mark R. Bales ,  Ronald R. Marquardt ,  Lyle W. Paczkowski

IPC: H04L9/32 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A method of using a digital notary in distributed ledger technology for block construction and verification is disclosed that comprises creating, via a birth block creator server in a network, a birth block comprising electronic device information associated with an electronic device and an instruction set. The method also comprises confirming, by a digital notary server in the network, that the instruction set was built in trust and adding, by the digital notary server, a digital notary component to the birth block in response to the confirmation. The method further comprises creating a subsequent block for the electronic device that comprises the instruction set and the digital notary component, validating the subsequent block based on the digital notary component without consensus from a plurality of consensus servers in the network, and storing the subsequent block in response to the validation.

公开(公告)号：US10348488B1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US15686312

申请日：2017-08-25

Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.

Inventor： Lyle W. Paczkowski ,  Lyle T. Bertz ,  Mark R. Bales

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L9/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04W4/021 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/715 ,  H04L12/771 ,  H04W12/08 ,  G07C13/00

Abstract: A method of combining chains of blocks in a network. The method comprising, creating a plurality of birth blocks of a plurality of chains of blocks by a block foundry application in a network, where each birth block is associated with a chain of blocks that records events of a network entity, creating blocks by a plurality of nodes in the network, wherein the current block and the previous block are linked, terminating the chain of blocks by the network entity, wherein the entity sends a termination request to create an end block, creating the end block, wherein the end block is the final block of the chain of blocks, and in response to the creation of the end block, sending a request by the network entity to create a block of a meta-chain of blocks, and creating the block of the meta-chain of blocks by the plurality of nodes.

公开(公告)号：US10250498B1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-02

申请号：US15284506

申请日：2016-10-03

Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.

Inventor： Mark R. Bales ,  Lyle T. Bertz ,  Lyle W. Paczkowski

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/723 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/725 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A system for proving secure streamed data sessions is disclosed. The system comprises a first computer system executing an orchestrator virtualized network function (VNF). The orchestrator VNF collects performance metrics on routers, receives a request for a secure streamed data session, analyzes the metrics based on the request, determines a secure routing path, creates a routing instruction set that defines the secure routing path, and transmits the routing instruction set to a session aggregator. The system further comprises a second computer system that executes the session aggregator in a trusted security zone. The session aggregator establishes trusted end-to-end communication links with a first edge router, a second edge router, and at least one of the plurality of routers and configures the routing instruction set into each of the CPE node, the first edge router, the second edge router, and the at least one router via the trusted end-to-end communication link.

公开(公告)号：US10536373B1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-14

申请号：US16276311

申请日：2019-02-14

Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.

Inventor： Mark R. Bales ,  Lyle T. Bertz ,  Lyle W. Paczkowski

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/725 ,  H04L12/723 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A system for proving secure streamed data sessions is disclosed. The system comprises a first computer system executing an orchestrator virtualized network function (VNF). The orchestrator VNF collects performance metrics on routers, receives a request for a secure streamed data session, analyzes the metrics based on the request, determines a secure routing path, creates a routing instruction set that defines the secure routing path, and transmits the routing instruction set to a session aggregator. The system further comprises a second computer system that executes the session aggregator in a trusted security zone. The session aggregator establishes trusted end-to-end communication links with a first edge router, a second edge router, and at least one of the plurality of routers and configures the routing instruction set into each of the CPE node, the first edge router, the second edge router, and the at least one router via the trusted end-to-end communication link.

公开(公告)号：US10790965B1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-29

申请号：US16417612

申请日：2019-05-20

Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.

Inventor： Lyle W. Paczkowski ,  Lyle T. Bertz ,  Mark R. Bales

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L9/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04L12/771 ,  H04W4/021 ,  H04L12/715 ,  G07C13/00

Abstract: A method of combining chains of blocks in a network. The method comprising, creating a plurality of birth blocks of a plurality of chains of blocks by a block foundry application in a network, where each birth block is associated with a chain of blocks that records events of a network entity, creating blocks by a plurality of nodes in the network, wherein the current block and the previous block are linked, terminating the chain of blocks by the network entity, wherein the entity sends a termination request to create an end block, creating the end block, wherein the end block is the final block of the chain of blocks, and in response to the creation of the end block, sending a request by the network entity to create a block of a meta-chain of blocks, and creating the block of the meta-chain of blocks by the plurality of nodes.