Patents by Inventor Neelakant R. Patel

Neelakant R. Patel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Blockchain managed storage
    Patent number: 11227457
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to open a storage system, the request comprising an identification of a user that submitted the request, transmitting a notification to one or more stakeholder devices of the storage system indicating the user requests access to the storage system, receiving responses from the one or more stakeholder devices, determining, via a smart contract executing on a blockchain node associated with the storage system, whether to open the storage system based on the received responses and consensus information included in the smart contract, and storing the determination made by the smart contract as a transaction in a blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Neelakant R. Patel
  • BLOCKCHAIN MANAGED STORAGE
    Publication number: 20190172282
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to open a storage system, the request comprising an identification of a user that submitted the request, transmitting a notification to one or more stakeholder devices of the storage system indicating the user requests access to the storage system, receiving responses from the one or more stakeholder devices, determining, via a smart contract executing on a blockchain node associated with the storage system, whether to open the storage system based on the received responses and consensus information included in the smart contract, and storing the determination made by the smart contract as a transaction in a blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventor: Neelakant R. Patel