Patent ID: 11870747
Assignee: MITEL NETWORKS CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method of certifying iterative electronic communications comprising:
receiving a message thread from a sender including message content comprising one or more blocks of protected content, wherein each block has its own hash and references an annotation that is a section of text at the end of a hash thread;
validating each of the one or more blocks of protected content using at least one of a blockchain public key associated with an author of each of the one or more blocks of protected content, a digital signature associated with each of the one or more blocks of protected content, and a block number assigned to each of the one or more blocks of protected content;
when validating fails, the distributed network marking the message thread to indicate the message thread is untrusted; and
when the validating succeeds, the distributed network marking the message thread to indicate the message thread has been blockchain certified.