US 12,280,457 B2
Management system for hard drive dismantling system
Kevin P. Clark, Carbondale, IL (US)
Assigned to Serenity Data Security, LLC, Carbondale, IL (US)
Filed by Serenity Data Security, LLC, Carbondale, IL (US)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/196,311.
Application 17/196,311 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/900,066, filed on Feb. 20, 2018, granted, now 11,167,384.
Application 15/900,066 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/516,609, granted, now 10,926,298, previously published as PCT/US2016/040812, filed on Jul. 1, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/188,055, filed on Jul. 2, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0213573 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. B23P 19/06 (2006.01); B02C 23/08 (2006.01); B03B 9/06 (2006.01); C22B 59/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/80 (2013.01); G06Q 10/30 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01)
CPC B23P 19/06 (2013.01) [B02C 23/08 (2013.01); B03B 9/061 (2013.01); C22B 59/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/80 (2013.01); G06Q 10/30 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2143 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing an automated dismantling system for hard drives, comprising steps of:
providing a database of identities of a plurality of hard drives, one or more corresponding key characteristics of each hard drive in the plurality of hard drives, and a contract value between a customer and processing party associated with each hard drive of the plurality of hard drives;
automatically monitoring in real time, hard drives provided to the dismantling system via a scanning system in operative communication with the database, which monitoring includes tracking a number and identifying a type of hard drive via cross referencing with the database;
immutably recording in a blockchain ledger, information about the hard drives provided to the dismantling system and monitored by the scanning system, which information includes at least the number, type and contract value of each hard drive identified by the scanning system; and
automatically processing a payment, in either fiat currency or cryptocurrency, to the customer based on the number, type and contract value of each hard drive identified by the scanning system via a processing system integrated with the blockchain ledger.