U.S. Patent 10855778 was awarded to EMC IP Holding Company LLC on December 01, 2020 and is entitled “Distributed ledger for edge server management.” The first named inventor is Stephen J. Todd of Center Conway, NH. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In a system comprising a set of gateway devices operatively coupled to a set of edge servers, a method obtains data at a given one of the edge servers, wherein at least a portion of the data comprises valuation data attributable to at least one of the one or more gateway devices. The method sends the data from the given one of the edge servers to a blockchain or distributed ledger shared by the set of edge servers for storage of the data on the blockchain. Such a method provides blockchain-based edge server value management that enables a single view of cross-edge operational and value contributions associated with the set of edge servers in the system. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 31, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/176749 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10855778. The primary examiner was Abdullahi E Salad.

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 9796 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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