US 11,720,526 B2
Sustainable energy tracking system utilizing blockchain technology and Merkle tree hashing structure
Eric Miller, Austin, TX (US); Evan Caron, Austin, TX (US); and Troy Martin, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to ClearTrace Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by ClearTrace Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/95,438.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/934,113, filed on Nov. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0142426 A1, May 13, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); H02S 10/12 (2014.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); G06Q 30/018 (2023.01); G06Q 40/04 (2012.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01); G06Q 50/26 (2012.01)
CPC G06F 16/137 (2019.01) [G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/254 (2019.01); G06Q 20/0655 (2013.01); G06Q 20/389 (2013.01); G06Q 30/018 (2013.01); G06Q 40/04 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02S 10/12 (2014.12); G06Q 50/26 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01); H02J 2300/22 (2020.01); H02J 2300/28 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer program product comprising:
a program of instructions tangibly embodied on at least one computer readable medium wherein, when the instructions are executed on at least one processor, a processor causes operations to be performed to verify physical phenomena transaction records of physical phenomena transactions distributed across at least one physical phenomena transmission network, the operations comprising:
generating a hash value for each of a plurality of physical phenomena data records (PPDRs), each representing a defined quantity of physical phenomena occurring in a defined time period;
storing each hash value in a Merkle trie;
generating an aggregate of at least one of the PPDRs for a predetermined quantum of physical phenomena represented by the aggregated PPDRs;
generating a physical phenomena block on at least one blockchain and storing therein at least one root hash value, the root hash value representing a root in the Merkle trie corresponding to the aggregated PPDRs; and,
associating the physical phenomena block with physical phenomena validation data (PPVD) corresponding to the quantum of physical phenomena.