PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16237542
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["713", "168000"]

Abstract:
For an encryption-protected decentralized and replicated blockchain file storage system maintained and managed by a channel of peers, the invention creates the additional levels of trust that are needed for peer voter authentication and transaction proposal endorsement. The invention effectively excludes hostile agents from influencing or impersonating legitimate voter peers through the mathematical strength of the K-of-N mechanism based on secret sharing with cryptographic hashing. In a further embodiment an extension to nested signatures is disclosed to enforce signing order.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for secure coordination among a plurality M of peers in a channel, each having a unique share of a shared secret, using a plurality M of hardware security modules each having firmware comprising a threshold secret sharing scheme and belonging to a homogeneous authentication scheme with a common shared secret and a common endorsement policy, comprising:\n a) Controlling login to each of the plurality of hardware security modules by each peer's unique secret share; b) Provisioning each of the plurality of hardware security modules to compute a credential by concatenation of a nonce with a shared secret and one or more identity factors to create a concatenation value, and thereafter computing a one-way hash of the concatenation value; c) Receiving the credential, the nonce, and an action proposal which requires a vote on endorsement by the M peers in accord with the endorsement policy; d) Receiving the vote on endorsement of the action proposal from each of the M peers; and e) Recording said vote of each peer in a distributed ledger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.21739
- Patent Class: 713.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15898842', '15980432', '16180200', '15814485', '16047507']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4065971026143554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4983664364978997
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4157740360027098
- Mean Citation Score: 200.285364
- Max Citation Score: 213.69682000000003
- Similarity Product: 138.53188968474868

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test