ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,164, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).
"Edge blockchain authentication" was invented by Ahmed Alkarboly (Denver), Jennings Orcutt (Denver), Vinayak Sharma (Denver) and Media Johnsen (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edge blockchain authentication for communications networks is disclosed. By using a blockchain approach instead of a conventional network function (NF) authentication approach, authentication for applications and services can be performed at an authenticating data center (ADC) without the need to involve the regional data center (RDC) and/or the national data center (NDC). Appli...