U.S. Patent 11176093 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 16, 2021 and is entitled “Defensible disposition of data.” The first named inventor is Vugranam C. Sreedhar of Yorktown Heights, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a disposition node, to a blockchain comprised of a plurality of user nodes connected to a plurality of device nodes that store user data of the plurality of the user nodes, receiving, by the disposition node, a request from a user node of the plurality of the user nodes to dispose of user data (D) on at least one of the device nodes of the plurality of the device nodes, the request contains a disposal policy (P) and a disposal method (M) of the D, executing, by the disposition node, a consensus algorithm to validate the request based on the D, P and M, in response to a validation of the request, accessing, by the disposition node, the D on the at least one of the device nodes of the plurality of the device nodes, generating, by the disposition node, a location sensitive hash of the D (LSH(D)) and a crypto hash of the D (SHA256(D)), storing, by the disposition node, the LSH(D), the SHA256(D), the P and the M on the blockchain, executing, by the disposition node, a smart contract to dispose of the D on the at least one of the device nodes of the plurality of the device nodes by the M based on the P, and recording an execution of the smart contract on the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 29, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/204990 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11176093. The primary examiner was Taghi T Arani.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 150818 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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