Patent ID: 11861360
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A management method for software versions, the management method to be executed by a version management system, the management method comprising:
receiving request information by a first management apparatus among management apparatuses which are included in the version management system and have distributed ledgers, the request information indicating a requested version requested by a user;
obtaining first transaction data and second transaction data, based on a predetermined distribution ratio, the first transaction data indicating that the user provides a first number of tokens to a first software developer who has developed the requested version, the second transaction data indicating that the first software developer provides a second number of tokens to a second software developer who has developed a previous version of the requested version; and
storing the first transaction data and the second transaction data in the distributed ledgers through execution of a consensus algorithm by the management apparatuses.