US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 30 for "Distributed service activation method via blockchain" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,125, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Distributed service activation method via blockchain" was invented by Stefano Orsi (Viareggio, Italy), Riccardo Ceccatelli (San Miniato, Italy) and Paolo Debenedetti (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-domain telecommunication network may use a blockchain with an activation block to activate a reserved connection path for a service. The network may use a correction block in the blockchain to efficiently and timely perform a crank-back procedure. A management node of a domain of the network may act as an activation miner sen...