Patent ID: 11870597
Assignee: ERICSSON TELEKOMMUNIKATION GMBH & CO KG
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program code to be executed by at least one processing circuit of a miner or of a billing node wherein execution of the program code causes the at least one processing circuit to:
determine a latest block of a blockchain related to the service and a total resource information present in the latest block, wherein the total resource information represents a total amount of resources used by a one or more devices for providing a service since a defined starting point in time;
determine that a new use case of resources of a first device of the one or more devices has occurred which is not reflected by the total resource information;
determine a new amount of the resources used by the first device during the new use case;
determine a new total resource information in which the total resource information is combined with the new amount of the resources and which reflects a complete use of the resources of the one or more devices from the defined starting point until determining the new total resource information;
generate a new block of the blockchain;
add the new total resource information to the new block;
add the new block to the blockchain,
wherein the blockchain comprises a contract containing at least identification data of the blockchain and usage information indicating which user is entitled to use the resources of the one or more devices; and
initiate control of what communication resources of a mobile communications system are operated for use by the first device to provide a service under the contact to the user indicated by the contract and based on the new total resource information.