Influential BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company Blockchain Patent – Expendable access control – US10956614

U.S. Patent 10956614 was awarded to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company on March 23, 2021 and is entitled “Expendable access control.” The first named inventor is Joshua DANIEL of London, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer implemented method of a resource provider for access control for a restricted resource in a network connected computer system, wherein a blockchain data structure accessible via the network stores digitally signed records validated by network connected miner software components including a provider record associated with the resource provider, the method including: identifying an access control role definition for access to the resource, the role including a specification of access permissions; receiving a request from a resource consumer for access to the resource; communicating, to the resource consumer, an indication of a quantity of a cryptocurrency required for access to the resource; and in response to a determination that the required quantity of cryptocurrency is transferred to the provider record in the blockchain, the transfer being caused by a blockchain transaction including an identification of the role and the transaction being validated by a miner component, granting the consumer access to the resource in accordance with the role definition. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 20, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/749338 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10956614. The assistant examiner was Lin Chang.

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1615 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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