American telecoms giant AT&T is seeking a patent for a blockchain-based social media history "Map." The patent application was published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Dec. 13.
AT&T's patent application describes a blockchain-powered system that may include a transaction history controller to store subscribers' data, which may be used for various purposes.
Broadly speaking, by deploying the system users could purportedly track "Micro-culture transactions," like tracing current trends at a particular time or place, or behavior of their friends.
"The social media history map platforms described herein may take advantage of the immutable and permanent nature of blockchain records to store, and provide access to, data representing online transactions that occur on multiple social media applications."
"However, instead of passing ownership of blocks or data between users, a social media account owner maintains primary ownership of his or her online transaction data. What passes from the social media account owner to other users of the social media history map service, such as followers of the social media account owner, is a notion of elevated visibility rights."
In November, the USPTO awarded printing and digital copying appliances manufacturer Xerox a patent for a blockchain-driven auditing system for electronic files.
The technology offered by Xerox can supposedly detect whether a file has been altered and tracks the history of changes to documents.
Owing to the decentralized verification mechanism, the system thus becomes resistant to tampering, the filing states.
Financial services giant American Express filed a patent for a blockchain-based system to capture and transmit the image of a receipt.
The filing describes how the system lets a user with a mobile device capture the image of a receipt.
Telecoms Giant AT&T Seeks Patent for Blockchain-Enabled Social Media 'Mapping' System
pubblicato su Dec 15, 2018
by Cointele | pubblicato su Coinage
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