Influential Workday, Inc. Blockchain Patent – Blockchain-based secure credential and token management across multiple devices – US10735197

U.S. Patent 10735197 was awarded to Workday, Inc. on August 04, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-based secure credential and token management across multiple devices.” The first named inventor is Prakash Sundaresan of Redmond, WA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An embodiment herein provides a processor implemented method for blockchain-based secure credential and token management for open identity management that enables a first device to provision at least one additional device to present tokens issued to the first device, that includes i) creating, using a hardware-based cryptographic processor on a first device associated with an end user, a first set of credentials; ii) obtaining and caching at least one attestation token from one or attestation issuing parties, the at least one attestation token is restricted by default to be unusable from any device other than the first device; (iii) providing the at least one attestation token to at least one relying party that is interested in receiving attestations about the end user; and iv) signing a trust record on the blockchain using the first device associated with the end user. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 24, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/961791 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10735197. The primary examiner was Ellen Tran.

Workday, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 164 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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