Patent ID: 9210054
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a service, the method comprising: a computer system collecting information about use of a set of resources by the service, wherein the computer system digitally signs the information about each particular use, and wherein the computer system stores the digitally signed information about each particular use of the set of resources by the service in a usage graph, and wherein the computer system digitally signs the usage graph storing the digitally signed information about each particular use of the set of resources by the service; the computer system receiving a request to verify information regarding a selected portion of a period of time during the use of the set of resources by the service; responsive to the computer system receiving the request to verify the information regarding the selected portion of the period of time during the use of the set of resources by the service, the computer system generating a description of the use of the set of resources by the service during the selected portion of the period of time using the collected information, wherein the computer system generates and verifies the description of the use of the set of resources by the service using the digitally signed information in the digitally signed usage graph; and the computer system creating a response to the request using the generated description of the use of the set of resources by the service during the selected portion of the period of time as proof of validity of the information.