U.S. Patent 11171783 was awarded to INFOSYS LIMITED on November 09, 2021 and is entitled “System and method for decentralized identity management, authentication and authorization of applications.” The first named inventor is Shyam Kumar Doddavula of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method, a system and/or an apparatus for decentralized identity management, authentication and authorization of applications is disclosed. The method, system and/or apparatus enables a machine/application to identify any other machine/application in a network without requiring a central server or authority. The method, system and/or apparatus involves controlling the data access and communication between machine/applications in a blockchain network by authorizing the communication only when there exists authorization permissions. The authorization permission of application/machine and user are stored in distributed ledger only if quorum is achieved as per the consensus algorithm present in the smart contract defined by the admin, making the system more secure. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 25, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/582188 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11171783. The assistant examiner was Hassan A Hussein.

INFOSYS LIMITED, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 434 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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