US 12,238,229 B2
Autonomous distributed wide area network having control plane and order management on a blockchain
Paul Valenzuela, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US); and Christian Johnny Martinez, East Rockaway, NY (US)
Assigned to UNIFIED SENTINEL DATA NETWORKS, LLC, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US)
Filed by Unified Sentinel Data Networks, LLC, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/530,060.
Application 18/530,060 is a division of application No. 17/986,393, filed on Nov. 14, 2022, granted, now 11,856,117.
Application 17/986,393 is a continuation of application No. 17/880,354, filed on Aug. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/228,838, filed on Aug. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0106674 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 9/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 41/00 (2022.01); H04L 41/08 (2022.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 9/50 (2022.05) [H04L 9/3263 (2013.01); H04L 41/08 (2013.01); H04L 41/20 (2013.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.05); H04L 67/34 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of placing an order over an autonomous distributed wide area network, comprising:
accessing, from a remote client device, a customer portal over an open wide area network, wherein the portal is coupled to the autonomous distributed wide area network, wherein the autonomous distributed wide area network includes a plurality of operational nodes that operate over the open wide area network as an underlay network;
authenticating an entity using the remote client device at the customer portal;
providing, by the customer portal to the remote client device, an order interface;
receiving, through the order interface, at the customer portal via the order interface from the remote client device, order information indicating a change to the autonomous distributed wide area network that is at least one of adding a new operational node to the plurality of operational nodes, changing a configuration of an existing operational node of the plurality of operational nodes; and deleting an existing operational node from the plurality of operational node;
generating an order record at the customer portal in response to receiving the order information; and
writing the order record to a permissioned blockchain distributed ledger of the autonomous distributed wide area network, wherein access to the permissioned blockchain distributed ledger is controlled such that only the customer portal and the plurality of operational nodes can access the permissioned blockchain distributed ledger, and wherein the order record becomes an immutable entry in the permissioned blockchain distributed ledger;
wherein the customer portal and plurality of operational nodes operate using the autonomous distributed wide area network to maintain and to access the permissioned blockchain distributed ledger, and wherein each operational node of the plurality of operational nodes accesses the permissioned blockchain distributed ledger to process the order record and make changes to its operating parameters to reflect the change to the autonomous distributed wide area network.