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

Claim 18:
19. A system to provide technology and ownership validation of files, the system comprising:
a processing device configured to execute:
one or more electronic design automation (EDA) tools available to a vendor as a vendor system configured to enable a vendor to generate unique signatures locally for proprietary files, without disclosing the proprietary files to another, wherein a proprietary file of the one or more proprietary files comprises hardware description language code; and
a signature validator configured to receive the unique signatures from the tool, compare a signature of the plurality of signatures with existing signatures and validate each of the plurality of 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 coupled to the processing device, the memory comprising a global database to store the unique signatures and metadata, the global database used to identify, in response to determining that the signature is not unique, at least one of leakage, misappropriation, appropriation, or contamination of the proprietary files with one or more of proprietary files from another vendor, and open source files.