U.S. Patent 11025701 was awarded to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. on June 01, 2021 and is entitled “Systems and methods for utilizing blockchain for securing browsing behavior information.” The first named inventor is Deepshikha Bansal of Cumming, GA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system described herein may provide the use of secured ledger techniques, such as blockchain techniques, to secure information provided by a content provider, such as an application server. A device may generate a file containing such information, and a file name of the file may exclude identifying information for the content provider, such as a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) or domain name associated with the content provider. The device may generate a first mapping between the file name and the content provider, and may record the first mapping to a ledger system. The device may maintain a second mapping of an identifier of a portion of the ledger system, in which the first mapping was recorded, to the content provider, and may use this second mapping to retrieve the information from the file upon an authorized request. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 29, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/862220 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11025701. The primary examiner was Ruolei Zong.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 4881 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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