Patents by Inventor Andrew Buford

Andrew Buford 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).

  • Systems and methods for on-demand distributed ledger establishment
    Patent number: 12361015
    Abstract: A system described herein may receive a distributed ledger creation request that specifies a quantity of nodes. The system may provision a plurality of sets of hardware resources to implement a set of nodes which includes the requested quantity of nodes. Provisioning the plurality of sets of hardware resources may include generating communication information associated with each node of the set of nodes. The system may instruct at least one node, of the set of nodes, to establish a distributed ledger. The at least one node may communicate with one or more other nodes of the set of nodes to establish the distributed ledger. The system may output, in response to the distributed ledger creation request, communication information associated with one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes. The communication information may be used to interact with the established distributed ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed A. Khan, Khaliq Raza, Donna L. Rodela, Nityanand Sharma, Syed R. Noor, Abubakar Syed, Jeaha Yang, Andrew Buford, Rangesh Sripathi
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ON-DEMAND DISTRIBUTED LEDGER ESTABLISHMENT
    Publication number: 20240232221
    Abstract: A system described herein may receive a distributed ledger creation request that specifies a quantity of nodes. The system may provision a plurality of sets of hardware resources to implement a set of nodes which includes the requested quantity of nodes. Provisioning the plurality of sets of hardware resources may include generating communication information associated with each node of the set of nodes. The system may instruct at least one node, of the set of nodes, to establish a distributed ledger. The at least one node may communicate with one or more other nodes of the set of nodes to establish the distributed ledger. The system may output, in response to the distributed ledger creation request, communication information associated with one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes. The communication information may be used to interact with the established distributed ledger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed A. Khan, Khaliq Raza, Donna L. Rodela, Nityanand Sharma, Syed R. Noor, Abubakar Syed, Jeaha Yang, Andrew Buford, Rangesh Sripathi