U.S. Patent 10361843 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on July 23, 2019 and is entitled “Native blockchain platform for improving workload mobility in telecommunication networks.” The first named inventor is Om Prakash Suthar of Bolingbrook, IL. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A network slice manager receives a workload mobility request to add network resources to a domain in the communication network, and authenticates a virtual network function (VNF) with a blockchain authentication function (BAF) over a blockchain network interface based on the workload mobility request. The network slice manager further receives an indication of a successful authentication from the BAF, and instantiates the VNF in the domain of the communication network based on the indication of the successful authentication. Notably, these authentication processes may be readily adapted to instantiate new network resources or migrate existing network resources between domains. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 29, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/205017 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10361843. The primary examiner was Shanto Abedin.

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 16856 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 15 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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