US 11,989,269 B1
Systems and methods for secure person to device association
Steven John Goeringer, Westminster, CO (US); and Brian Alexander Scriber, Lafayette, CO (US)
Assigned to Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US)
Filed by CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC., Louisville, CO (US)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/234,450.
Application 17/234,450 is a continuation of application No. 15/722,273, filed on Oct. 2, 2017, granted, now 10,984,081.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/402,264, filed on Sep. 30, 2016.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/32 (2013.01) [G06F 21/316 (2013.01); G06F 21/445 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 9/3263 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05); H04L 2209/56 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A method of establishing and managing an association of an electronic device to a person, the method implementing an electronic certificate authority and a digital distributed ledger having a plurality of participating processors over a distributed network, the method comprising the steps of:
initiating a digitally signed genesis transaction for the electronic device to the plurality of participating processors for consensus verification, the consensus verification comprising validating a digital signature of the genesis transaction with the certificate authority;
configuring, after consensus verification of the genesis block transaction, the electronic device to have a status indicating availability of the configured device for use;
associating the available electronic device with a personal identifier of the person, wherein the association comprises validation, by the participating processors checking the digital signature with the electronic certificate authority, of the availability status of the configured device;
recording, onto the digital distributed ledger, operational details of the association of the available electronic device with the personal identifier;
monitoring a use of the associated electronic device over time, wherein the monitoring comprises tracking changes to one or more of the operational details of the association; and
validating, by the participating processors checking the digital signature with the electronic certificate authority, a change to the one or more operational parameters, and recording information of the change on the digital distributed ledger.