Immutable System of Records for IoT / Control Systems for Compliance

• US 20200135342A1
• Filed: 10/30/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Logicmatter, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Logicmatter, Inc.
• Inventors: HEGDE, Kiran V.
• Granted Patent: US 11,488,727 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1805 Append-only file systems, e.g. using logs or journals to store data
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16Y 40/35 Management of things, i.e. controlling in accordance with a policy or in order to achieve specified objectives
• CPC Class Codes: G16Y 40/50 Safety; Security of things, users, data or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16Y 40/60 Positioning; Navigation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0643 Hash functions, e.g. MD5, SHA, HMAC or f9 MAC
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

An immutable system of records for achieving compliance in IoT/Control systems in order to thereby provide the regulator with a centralized immutable system of records, is disclosed herein. A blockchain based immutable record management module configured in association with a plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems in a heavily regulated industry environment wherein the blockchain based immutable record management module receives and manages a plurality of immutable records from plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems in a heavily regulated industry environment. The blockchain based immutable record management module further securely presents the immutable records to the regulators in order thereby enable the industry to inject undisputed facts to the regulators or the regulation authorities.

Claims

1. Blockchain based immutable system of records for Iot/control systems data for storing, recording and reporting compliance, said system comprising:

a blockchain based immutable record management module configured in association with a plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems in any regulated industry environment wherein the blockchain based immutable record management module receives and manages a plurality of immutable records from plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems in a heavily regulated industry environment.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the blockchain based immutable record management module further securely presents the immutable records to the regulators in order thereby enable the industry to inject undisputed facts to the regulators or the regulation authorities.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a ledger module for recording and alerting on the critical alerts and records within the network wherein the ledger module alerts appropriate authorities (e.g., facilities manager) and to push the alert into a ledger.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 further provides secure access to external devices/programs/systems without the need to directly connect to the underlying IoT/Control Systems to access compliance data to do regulatory reporting and handle non-compliance events and risks in real-time and near real-time.

5. The system as claimed in claim 2 wherein the third-party publisher records the non-disputed contents in the ledger at specific intervals.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the blockchain based immutable record management module configured in association with a plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems provide a third-party network that seamlessly tracks, manages and presents undisputed facts and immutable records to the regulators and authorities.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the blockchain based immutable record management module provides a network of plurality of control systems in a private blockchain network wherein the immutable records are provided only with limited access permission to authorities and trusted third-party publishers and control systems in the network.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the blockchain based immutable record management module configured in association with a plurality of control systems associated with a plurality of devices/systems manages and retrieves immutable records from a plurality of control systems from a plurality of locations.

9. The system as claimed in claim 3 wherein the ledgers are maintained based on the information received from a plurality of control systems from a plurality of locations.