Patent ID: 11886557
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (IU)—VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HCM CITY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said step (c) of generating an auditable Merkle tree further comprises:
(i) pairing up two adjacent certificates among said plurality of certificates;
(ii) concatenating said two adjacent certificates and passing through a Hash function unit to form a second level leaf node where attributes of said two adjacent certificates are combined and stored;
(iii) pairing up said second level leaf nodes;
(iv) concatenating two adjacent leaf nodes at said second level and passing them through said Hash function unit to form a third level leaf node where said attributes of said two adjacent leaf nodes at said second level are combined and stored; and
(v) continuing steps (i) to (iv) until a root node is achieved.