Patent ID: 11943369
Assignee: SYNOPSYS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A technology and ownership validation system comprising:
a signature generator embedded in one or more electronic design automation (EDA) tools, the signature generator configured to generate one or more signatures corresponding to one or more proprietary files received from a vendor;
a signature validator configured to receive the one or more signatures, wherein each signature corresponds to a segment of a proprietary file of the one or more proprietary files, wherein the proprietary file of one or more proprietary files comprises hardware description language code, wherein the signature validator is further configured to compare a signature of the one or more signatures with existing signatures and validate each of the signatures to ensure that the signatures are owned by the vendor;
in response to determining that the signature is not unique and a conflict exists within the vendor based on the comparison, storing a relation between the signature and an existing signature, wherein the relation reflects an ownership relationship between the proprietary file and the vendor; and
a memory including a global database to store the signatures, the global database used to compare the proprietary files of the vendor to other technology data and identify, in response to determining that the signature is not unique, at least one of leakage, misappropriation, appropriation, or contamination of the one or more proprietary files with one or more of proprietary files from another vendor, and open source files.