Methods for access control of contract data in a distributed system with distributed consensus and contract generator and validation server thereof

• Main Authors: CHANG, SHIH FANG, ZHOU, JIA ZHENG, LEE, YA WEN, CHEN, SHIH CHANG
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 01.01.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Methods for access control of contract data in a distributed system are provided. The distributed system includes a contract generator, a validation server, a database and a distributed ledger which are in communication via a network, the method including the steps of: at the contract generator, receiving digital contract data from a first electronic device, determining a permission setting for accessing contract content associated with the digital contract data based on the digital contract data, and setting the permission setting to the validation server via the network, obtaining a validation link corresponding to the digital contract data from the validation server, generating contract information for digital contract data according to partial content of the digital contract data and the validation link, and storing the contract information in the distributed ledger.