Patent ID: 11863680
Assignee: TENET 3 LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. A system for establishing integrity of digital content, the system comprising:
a processor; and
a computer-readable medium storing instructions that are operative upon execution by the processor to:
during a block accumulation period:
receive a plurality of records, each record of the plurality of records respectively comprising a record for a digital content file and including an IVC for the digital content file; and
append the plurality of records into a currently open block of a blockchain;

upon an end of the block accumulation period:
close the currently open block to additional records, rendering the currently open block into a closed block; and
open a new current block into which a future plurality of records may be appended;

chain the closed block to the blockchain, wherein chaining blocks to the blockchain comprises inserting an IVC for an earlier block into a subsequent block; and
iteratively open, append, and chain multiple blocks across multiple block accumulation periods to produce the blockchain, wherein the blockchain does not contain content from the digital content file, and wherein at least one record of the plurality of records further comprises:
a first versioning linking field indicating, by its position within the record for the digital content file that, when the first versioning linking field identifies a location of a first other record within the blockchain, the digital content file comprises a later version of a first prior-version digital content file, wherein the first other record comprises a record for the first prior-version digital content file; and
a certification linking field indicating, by its position within the record for the digital content file that, when the certification linking field identifies a location of a second other record within the blockchain, wherein the second other record comprises record for a digital content file associated a certification event.