METHOD TO SECURELY BROKER TRUSTED DISTRIBUTED TASK CONTRACTS

• Main Authors: WISEMAN, Willard Monten, ZHANG, Li, BECKMANN, Benjamin Edward, GOOD, Brandon Stephen
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.12.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; 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

According to some embodiments, an edge device may receive, via a secure, distributed transaction ledger (e.g., associated with blockchain technology), information about a task contract published by a publisher device including an indication of a benefit and encryption information. The task contract might be associated with, for example, a compute transaction task and/or a physical task. The edge device may evaluate the received information in accordance with resources locally available at the edge device, and, responsive to said evaluation, transmit to the secure, distributed transaction ledger an indication of acceptance of the published task contract. According to some embodiments, the edge device may execute the published task contract, and, upon completion, arrange to receive the benefit associated with the published task contract.