Patents by Inventor Dulce B. Ponceleón

Dulce B. Ponceleón 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).

  • Publication number: 20220094526
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of splitting a session key into a plurality of partial shares, distributing the plurality partial shares to a plurality of content providers, respectively, where each content provider receives a different partial share of the session key, encrypting a stream of media content based on the session key, and transmitting the encrypted stream of digital content to a user device which has one or more partial shares among the plurality of partial shares.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jeronimo Irazabal, Luis Angel Bathen, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 11228424
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a validation node, a copy request from a user node over a blockchain network, the request contains a copy token, invoking, by the validation node, a smart contract associated with the copy token to verify the copy token, in response to a verification, generating, by the validation node, media copy keys for generation of a Blu-ray copy, and recording, by the validation node, the copy token on a ledger of the blockchain network to indicate that the copy token is spent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Angel Bathen, Gabor Madl, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 11204919
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a blockchain transaction, storing the blockchain transaction in a blockchain, assigning the blockchain transaction a transaction number and a block number, hashing a portion of blockchain transaction data associated with the blockchain transaction, and updating a blockchain index based on the hashed portion of the blockchain transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andres Garagiola, Jeronimo Irazabal, Raul Laprida, Guillermo R. Lopez, Diego Masini, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 11188920
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of a method for providing a one-step transaction submission in a blockchain network, comprising sending a transaction proposal, by a client node, to one or more peers of a plurality of peers, simulating a transaction associated with the transaction proposal, by at least one peer of the plurality of peers, evaluating, by an endorser peer, whether an endorsement policy has been fulfilled, and when the endorsement policy has been fulfilled, sending the transaction to at least one orderer node to be committed to a ledger, by the endorser peer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeronimo Irazabal, Andres Garagiola, Diego A. Masini, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 11159307
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a group of blockchain member devices attempting to establish a trusted group communication channel, assigning each of the blockchain member devices public/private key pairs, publishing the public keys of the blockchain member devices in a list, identifying a request from a first blockchain member device requesting a private key, associated with a second blockchain member device, be applied to a predetermined nonce value, responsive to identifying a response to the request, verifying, via a public key assigned to the first blockchain member device, that the second blockchain member device is a trusted member of the group of blockchain member devices, and responsive to verifying the second blockchain member device is a trusted member of the group of blockchain member devices, permitting communication between the first blockchain member device and the second blockchain member device on the trusted group communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Angel D. Bathen, Dulce B. Ponceleon, Marc H. Coq, Colette Manoni, Collin Walling, Corey McQuay, Eugene E. Nitka, Trent Balta
  • Publication number: 20210328770
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of establishing, by a first blockchain trust anchor node, a trusted connection to a trust anchor node of a second blockchain, detecting, by the first blockchain trust anchor node, changes of the first blockchain, and executing a smart contract to reflect the detected changes on the second blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Publication number: 20210312302
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a data processing node, inference data object from a multi-channel data server over a blockchain, sorting, by the data processing node, longitudinal records contained in the inference data object, linking, by the data processing node, transaction outcomes and inferences data from the inference data object to the sorted longitudinal records, and recording linked data onto a blockchain ledger. The data processing node serves as a validator of data from a robo-advisory using natural language (NL) processing to reduce bias and measure effectiveness of inference from the robo-advisory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Nitin Gaur, Dulce B. Ponceleon, Ioannis Katsis
  • Publication number: 20210311926
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request associated with a software library, identifying metadata of the software library, determining, via chaincode, whether data of the software library has been previously stored on a blockchain, and in response to a determination that the software library has not been previously stored, storing the identified metadata of the software library and a notarization value generated by the chaincode within the blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Dulce B. Ponceleon, Abhishek Malvankar, Shikhar Kwatra, Jeronimo Irazabal
  • Patent number: 11089096
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a recipient node, to a blockchain network configured to store links to digital assets of an owner, selecting, by the recipient node, an asset from a ledger of the owner, executing, by the recipient node, a smart contract to determine a time frame of the asset use, executing, by the recipient node, a smart contract to download the asset to the recipient node, checking, by the recipient node, if the asset is downloaded successfully, and in response to the successful download of the asset, executing, by the recipient node, a smart contract to log an asset transfer transaction onto the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin L. Schultz, Darryl Adderly, Rosanna Mannan, Diego A. Masini, Andres Garagiola, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 11030681
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a first conferred asset exchange request from a first user account and a second conferred asset exchange request from a second user account which are capable of being used to settle each other, requesting an intermediary blockchain to perform a conferred asset settlement transaction for the first and second conferred asset exchange requests, determining that first conferred assets of the first user account and second conferred assets of the second user account have been transferred to temporary intermediary trading addresses, respectively, and releasing the first conferred assets to the second user account and the second loyalty assets to the first user account, in response to the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Angel D. Bathen, Pawan R. Chowdhary, Andres Garagiola, Shun Jiang, Diego A. Masini, Guangjie Ren, Dulce B. Ponceleon, Chung-hao Tan
  • Publication number: 20210133721
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of storing, within a blockchain, a request comprising an identifier of content and a value of a user who created the content, detecting consumption of a reusable instance of the content by a second user, designating fractional values of the content to the first and second users based on the detected consumption of the reusable instance, and storing, within the blockchain, a second request comprising an identifier of the reusable instance of the content, identifiers of the first and second users, and the designated fractional values of the content to the first and second users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Dulce B. Ponceleon, Nitin Gaur, Peter Guglielmino
  • Patent number: 10992453
    Abstract: A system architecture providing memory encryption suitable for protection against liquid nitrogen and trace probe attacks. In one embodiment, a method of and system for memory encryption are provided. A write request is received at a memory controller. The write request includes first data and a first address. The memory controller is embedded in a CPU and is operatively coupled to memory external to the CPU. The first data are encrypted at the memory controller to generate encrypted first data. The encrypted first data are written to the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John B. Geagan, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 10979418
    Abstract: One example method may include generating a template transaction certificate by one or more entities which verify proof of ownership of attributes incorporated into the template transaction certificate, and generating one or more operational transaction certificates by the one or more entities which verified proof of ownership of the template transaction certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Kravitz, Dulce B. Ponceleon, Diego A. Masini, John B. Geagan, III, Brian K. Smith
  • Patent number: 10928848
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a clock node, to a blockchain network comprised of a plurality of nodes, retrieving, by the clock node, a timestamp (Ts) of the clock node, acquiring, by the clock node, a time window (Tw) based on the Ts, reading, by the clock node, a current window (Cw) from a world state, determining, by the clock node, a gap as a difference between the Tw and the Cw, calculating, by the clock node, a clock fix value based on the gap, and adjusting a clock by a subtraction of the clock fix value from the Ts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dulce B. Ponceleon, Diego A. Masini, Raul O. Laprida, Andres Garagiola
  • Publication number: 20200387910
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of acquiring, by a provision server, system policy data from a system policy engine, receiving, by the provision server, jurisdiction policy parameters from a jurisdiction policy engine, selecting, by the provision server, a smart contract from a smart contract repository based on the system policy data and the jurisdiction policy parameters, mapping, by the provision server, the smart contract to a node, and provisioning the node to a blockchain network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Dulce B. Ponceleon, Nitin Gaur
  • Publication number: 20200388365
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a pharmacy node, a request from a patient node for a prescription refill, the request contains a secret key of a patient, extracting, by the pharmacy node, the secret key from the request to verify a patient's identity, and executing, by the pharmacy node, a smart contract to: (a) decrypt a prescription data located on the ledger by an application of the secret key; (b) retrieve patient's allergy records from the ledger to check the allergy records against the prescription data; (c) determine a number of remaining refills from the prescription data; (d) check validity of the prescription data based on an expiration date; and commit a prescription refill transaction to the blockchain based on a successful execution of (b)-(d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Dulce B. Ponceleon, Nathalie Baracaldo Angel, Nitin Gaur
  • Publication number: 20200388366
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a pharmacy node, to a blockchain network configured to store patients' data on a blockchain ledger, receiving, by the pharmacy node, a request from a patient node for a prescription refill, the request contains a secret key of a patient, extracting, by the pharmacy node, the secret key from the request to verify a patient's identity, and executing, by the pharmacy node, a smart contract to: (a) decrypt a prescription data located on the ledger by an application of the secret key, (b) retrieve patient's allergy records from the ledger to check the allergy records against the prescription data, (c) determine a number of remaining refills from the prescription data, (d) check validity of the prescription data based on an expiration date, and commit a prescription refill transaction to the blockchain based on a successful execution of (b)-(d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Dulce B. Ponceleon, Nathalie Baracaldo Angel, Nitin Gaur
  • Publication number: 20200389290
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a validation node, a copy request from a user node over a blockchain network, the request contains a copy token, invoking, by the validation node, a smart contract associated with the copy token to verify the copy token, in response to a verification, generating, by the validation node, media copy keys for generation of a Blu-ray copy, and recording, by the validation node, the copy token on a ledger of the blockchain network to indicate that the copy token is spent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Luis Angel Bathen, Gabor Madl, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 10841078
    Abstract: Encryption key block generation with barrier descriptors is provided. In some embodiments, a descriptor is read. The descriptor includes a list of revoked devices and a list of boundaries between devices. A plurality of subset differences is generated. The plurality of subset-differences covers a plurality of devices. None of the plurality of devices appears in the list of revoked devices. None of the plurality of subset differences spans any of the boundaries. Encrypted information is generated based on the subset differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John B. Geagan, Dulce B. Ponceleon
  • Patent number: 10833845
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by an attester node, to a blockchain network A configured to store hashes of blocks A, coupling, by the attester node, the blockchain network A with a blockchain network B configured to store hashes of blocks B, receiving, by the attester node, a request from the blockchain network A to send a hash of a block A produced at a time t1 (AHash_1) to the blockchain network B, confirming, by the attester node, that the blockchain network A has stored a hash of a block B produced at a time t0 (BHash_0), sending, by the attester node, the AHash_1 to the blockchain network B to be stored, receiving, by the attester node, a hash of the block B produced at the time t1 (BHash_1) from the blockchain network B, confirming, by the attester node, that the blockchain network B has stored a hash of a block A produced at the time t0 (AHash_0), and providing, by the attester node, the BHash_1 to the blockchain network A to be stored, wherein the t0 is less than the t1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeronimo Irazabal, Dulce B. Ponceleon