Discrete blockchain and blockchain communications

• US 10,536,445 B1
• Filed: 04/05/2019
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ironclad Encryption Corp.
• Original Assignee: Daniel Maurice Lerner
• Inventors: Lerner, Daniel Maurice
• Primary Examiner(s): Holder, Bradley W
• Application Number:
  US16/376,399
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3239 involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees

Abstract

An access control system with devices that securitize one or more blockchains using three sets of rules including authentication, validation, and access is provided. The system also can include protection of signals between one or more secure DASA databases and/or one or more blockchains for various user devices. The DASA databases may exist external to, along with, or within the blockchains. Specific methods and devices for securing (primarily digital and normally two-way) communications using applications offering the combination of securing communications from user devices with reader devices, are also provided. This disclosure also provides for the securitization and/or encryption of blockchain(s) for ensuring communication signals transmitted from and data residing within databases and/or the blockchain itself are not corruptible or compromised. In addition, communication processors for monitoring statistics regarding data at rest and data on the move associated with creating these securitized blockchains are included.

Claims

1. One or more access devices or one or more user devices or both one or more access devices and one or more user devices comprising:

at least one computer processing unit (CPU) with computational capabilities that is connected to and controls a computer memory via an address bus and a data bus where said address bus accesses a designated range of computer memories and range of memory bits and said data bus provides a flow of transmission(s) into and out of said CPU and computer memory;

one or more real or one or more virtual master distributed auto-synchronous array (DASA) databases or both one or more real and one or more virtual master distributed auto-synchronous array (DASA) databases located within or external to said access devices and said user devices, where said master (DASA) databases at least store and retrieve data and also include at least two or more partial distributed auto-synchronous array (DASA) databases, wherein said partial DASA databases function in either an independent manner, a collaborative manner, or both an independent manner and a collaborative manner, and wherein said master and said partial DASA databases configure bi-directional transmission of data that exists within, along, or external to one or more securitized blockchains, this bi-directional data transmission to and from one or more partial user devices, to and from one or more partial access devices, or to and from both one or more partial user and one or more partial access devices, wherein said user devices and said access devices are computing devices, and wherein said one or more partial user and said one or more partial access devices store and provide at least partial copies of portions of said master DASA databases, and wherein said master DASA databases, said partial DASA databases, or both said partial DASA databases and said master DASA databases are linked and communicate with each other and utilize one or more securitized blockchains with one or more logging and monitoring databases that provide statistical and numerical calculations utilizing said data, wherein said one or more devices authenticate using a first set of computing operations, and validate using a second set of computing operations, and wherein a third set of computing operations controls access for a specified set of users.

2. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein said master and said partial DASA databases analyze and provide information in a form of data and act to control one or more output devices, wherein said one or more output devices are computing devices, wherein said one or more output devices create user devices and wherein said securitized blockchains are securitized by implementation of said access devices.

3. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein said partial user devices and said partial access devices are independent and provide computing operations that utilize one or more securitized blockchains without a need for other partial user devices and other partial access devices and wherein said partial user devices and said partial access devices are networked and cooperate to complete required operations within, along, or external to one or more blockchains that are not securitized.

4. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein said user devices include at least one virtual user device that provides a separate storage and retrieval location which is utilized in a sequential manner where said virtual user device is not physical but operationally appears as if it is a physical device that exists within, along, or external to one or more blockchains, wherein said at least one virtual user device comprises executable software.

5. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 4, wherein said at least one virtual user device provides data that is within, along, or external to one or more blockchains for said partial access devices where virtual user device functionalities are provided via said partial access devices.

6. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 5, wherein said logging and monitoring database exists within, along, or external to one or more blockchains and includes temporal aspects regarding said data.

7. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein said partial access devices act upon said partial user devices and provide for distinguishing a physical user device from a virtual user device and wherein said partial access devices utilize said partial user devices without distinguishing said physical user device from said virtual user device and wherein said virtual user device requires utilization in sequence unless tolerance allows for computer operations that provide rules for out of sequence usage.

8. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein said partial DASA databases operate independently and utilize a designated portion of a user'"'"'s record existing within said partial DASA databases that exist within, along, or external to one or more blockchains and ultimately said partial DASA databases operate within said master DASA database and wherein said partial DASA databases store and retrieve data but are not required to perform data manipulation with computational operations.

9. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein said partial user devices transmit data that exists within, along, or external to one or more blockchains but are not required to perform computational operations, and wherein said partial user devices are selected from a group consisting of;

tickets, chits, tokens, RFID tags, radio, electrical, magnetic, electromagnetic and radiative tags, and wavelengths of optical and wavelengths of sonic energy tags.

10. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein said transmission of data is transmitted via signals that exist within, along, or external to one or more blockchains, wherein said signals are generated via at least one form of energy selected from one or more of the group consisting of;

electrical, optical, mechanical, chemical, magnetic, radiative, electro-optical, electro-mechanical, electrochemical and electro-magnetic energy.

11. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein according to said first set of computing operations, authentication attempts utilize a designated portion of a user'"'"'s record where said first set of computing operations invoke constantly changing said designated portion within said user'"'"'s record of said auto-synchronous either master or partial DASA database or both master and partial DASA databases, wherein both master and partial DASA databases exist within, along, or external to one or more blockchains.

12. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein non-authentication events do not cause constant changing of a designated portion of a user'"'"'s record within both master and partial DASA databases.

13. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 12, wherein either non-authentication or authentication events or both non-authentication and authentication events are recorded.

14. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein after authentication, validation occurs according to said second set of computing operations, wherein a subset of data with user specific information exists within a designated portion of a user'"'"'s record, where validation requires retrieving, analyzing, utilizing and storing said subset of data that exists within, along, or external to one or more blockchains and that is subsequently changed when validation of specific data within said subset occurs and wherein said validation of specific data provides allowance to attempt access.

15. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein after authentication and validation, said third set of computing operations are invoked, in order that access and denial is a recorded event that is stored and resides within a user'"'"'s records wherein said user'"'"'s records exist within, along, or external to one or more blockchains and wherein if access is granted verification is provided indicating access occurred.

16. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein as said third set of computing operations are invoked, access and denial is a recorded event stored in said logging and monitoring database that exists within, along, or external to one or more blockchains and that is separate from both master and partial DASA databases.

17. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 1, wherein at least one encryption application exists within said master or said partial DASA databases or both said master and said partial DASA databases and wherein said at least one encryption application possesses one or more keys and wherein data transmission from said partial user devices is encrypted with said one or more keys and wherein said data transmission is received by said partial access devices and decrypted with said keys.

18. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 17, wherein said one or more keys are generated from a subset of data that exists within, along, or external to one or more blockchains with user specific information existing within a designated portion of a user'"'"'s record of said master or said partial distributed auto-synchronous array databases or both said master and said partial distributed auto-synchronous array databases where authentication is implemented according to said first set of computing operations, wherein said first set of computing operations also includes encryption and decryption operations.

19. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 18, wherein said one or more keys are generated from a subset of data that exists within, along, or external to one or more blockchains with user specific information residing outside said designated portion of said user'"'"'s record of said master or said partial distributed auto-synchronous array databases or both said master and said partial distributed auto-synchronous array databases where authentication occurs according to said first set of computing operations, wherein said first set of computing operations includes encryption and decryption computing operations.

20. The one or more access devices and user devices of claim 17, wherein said at least one encryption application is secured in a secured database within a secured cloud or other secured computer aided storage system that utilize one or more of the group selected from:

a computer accessible cloud, a network, the Internet, an intranet, and at least one server within, along, or external to one or more blockchains.