DATA STORAGE SYSTEM WITH BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

• US 20170264428A1
• Filed: 01/30/2017
• Published: 09/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Manifold Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Manifold Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: SEGER, II, Robert Allan
• Application Number:
  US15/419,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20170264428A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0637 Modes of operation, e.g. cipher block chaining [CBC], electronic codebook [ECB] or Galois/counter mode [GCM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/32 including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity authentication, data integrity or data verification, non-repudiation, key authentication or verification of credentials
• 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

A blockchain processor may receive data associated with an interaction with a populated data storage system. The blockchain processor may hash a first previously entered data block at a first row address; combine the received data, the hash of the first previously entered data block, and the first row address into a data block; and store the data block.

Claims

1. A system for modifying a populated data storage system, comprising:

a blockchain processor configured to;

receive data associated with an interaction with the populated data storage system;

hash a first previously entered data block at a first row address;

combine the received data, the hash of the first previously entered data block, and the first row address into a data block; and

store the data block.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system comprises a data storage system log entry.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the blockchain processor is configured to receive the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system by reading the data from a data storage system log.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system comprises a query against the populated data storage system.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the blockchain processor is configured to receive the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system by mirroring a query against the populated data storage system.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a communications system coupled to the blockchain processor and configured to:

receive the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system from a computer; and

send the received data to the blockchain processor.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the communications system is configured to receive the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system by capturing a packet sent to or from the populated data storage system.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the communications system is configured to receive the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system by receiving a query against the populated data storage system.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the communications system is further configured to forward the query to the populated data storage system.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the blockchain processor is further configured to encrypt the received data; and

the received data in the data block comprises the encrypted received data.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising an auditing processor configured to:

retrieve the data block;

decrypt the data block to form decrypted data;

identify a second row address in the decrypted data;

retrieve a hash of a second previously entered data block stored at the second row address; and

compare the hash of the second previously entered data block to a hash in the decrypted data.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the auditing processor is further configured to determine that the decrypted data has not been tampered with when the hash of the second previously entered data block matches the hash in the decrypted data.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the auditing processor is further configured to determine that the decrypted data has been tampered with when the hash of the second previously entered data block does not match the hash in the decrypted data.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the auditing processor is further configured to:

codify the data block into a message; and

make the message available to a recipient.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising the populated data storage system.

16. A method for modifying a populated data storage system, comprising:

receiving, with a blockchain processor, data associated with an interaction with the populated data storage system;

hashing, with the blockchain processor, a first previously entered data block at a first row address;

combining, with the blockchain processor, the received data, the hash of the first previously entered data block, and the first row address into a data block; and

storing, with the blockchain processor, the data block.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system comprises a data storage system log entry.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving, with the blockchain processor, the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system by reading the data from a data storage system log.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system comprises a query against the populated data storage system.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein receiving, with the blockchain processor, the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system by mirroring a query against the populated data storage system.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving, with a communications system coupled to the blockchain processor, the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system from a computer; and

sending, with the communications system, the received data to the blockchain processor.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein receiving, with the communications system, the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system comprises capturing a packet sent to or from the populated data storage system.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein receiving, with the communications system, the data associated with the interaction with the populated data storage system comprises receiving a query against the populated data storage system.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising forwarding, with the communications system, the query to the populated data storage system.

25. The method of claim 16, further comprising encrypting, with the blockchain processor, the received data, wherein the received data in the data block comprises the encrypted received data.

26. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

retrieving, with an auditing processor, the data block;

decrypting, with the auditing processor, the data block to form decrypted data;

identifying, with the auditing processor, a second row address in the decrypted data;

retrieving, with the auditing processor, a hash of a second previously entered data block stored at the second row address; and

comparing, with the auditing processor, the hash of the second previously entered data block to a hash in the decrypted data.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising determining, with the auditing processor, that the decrypted data has not been tampered with when the hash of the second previously entered data block matches the hash in the decrypted data.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising determining, with the auditing processor, that the decrypted data has been tampered with when the hash of the second previously entered data block does not match the hash in the decrypted data.

29. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

codifying, with the auditing processor, the data block into a message; and

making, with the auditing processor, the message available to a recipient.

30. The method of claim 16, further comprising coupling the blockchain processor to the populated data storage system.