US 12,273,458 B2
Blockchain-powered cloud management system
Jin Kocsis, Lafayette, IN (US); and Mututhanthrige Pravenn Sameera Fernando, Akron, OH (US)
Assigned to The University of Akron, Akron, OH (US)
Filed by Jin Kocsis, Lafayette, IN (US); and Mututhanthrige Pravenn Sameera Fernando, Akron, OH (US)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/823,629.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/850,636, filed on May 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0374127 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 41/5022 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.01); H04L 67/1042 (2022.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 9/3239 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 9/3297 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 41/5022 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); H04L 67/1042 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A blockchain-powered cloud management system comprising:
a multi-controller software-defined networking (SDN) layer having two or more networked SDN controllers;
a cloud management layer for managing network traffic within a cloud or between two or more clouds; wherein said cloud management layer comprises one or more of data domains containing one or more virtual machines, wherein said virtual machines are connected to at least one of said two or more networked SDN controller through a domain switch and wherein said one or more of data domains are networked together through one or more domain edge switches and one or more inter-domain connections to form a data plane back-bone network for inter-domain communication; and
a blockchain-based security and management layer, wherein said blockchain-based security and management layer comprises: a decentralized blockchain database connected to each of said two or more networked SDN controllers; and one or more digital smart contracts.