Patent ID: 11899647
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for determining a further data block, the method comprising:
receiving a further timestamp transaction via a first interface, the further timestamp transaction including a hash of a dataset and a further verification time;
receiving a distributed ledger via the first interface, the distributed ledger including data blocks;
determining, via a first computation unit, a first time by querying a time server;
performing, via the first computation unit, a first check based on the first time and the further verification time to verify that the further data block can be created; and
determining, via the first computation unit, the further data block based on the distributed ledger in response to the first check verifying that the further data block can be created, the further data block including the further timestamp transaction.