US 12,008,144 B2
Method and apparatus for tamper-proof storage of information in respect of object-related measures
Rainer Falk, Poing (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 16/495,116
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 4, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/050200
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 18, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/171949, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17162319 (EP), filed on Mar. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0089915 A1, Mar. 19, 2020
Int. Cl. H04L 9/00 (2022.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 21/64 (2013.01) [H04L 9/3236 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); H04L 9/3297 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for tamper-proof storage of information with respect to object-related measures, comprising:
storing the information with respect to the object-related measures,
wherein the object-related measures are relating to an object and are contained as transactions in transaction blocks that are linked together in an object-specific transaction blockchain of the object, the object-specific transaction blockchain being stored in an object data memory assigned to the object,
wherein each transaction is captured,
wherein each transaction contains a validation program code (VPC),
wherein the VPC defines rules that specify which transactions are admissible,
wherein each transaction block of the transaction blocks comprises at least one transaction that specifies a measure undertaken on the object or a measure undertaken by the object itself,
wherein an additional transaction block, following its successful validation, is linked to the last transaction block situated at the end of the object-specific transaction blockchain of the object,
wherein the object-specific transaction blockchain of the object is read from the object data memory of the object and the transactions contained in the transaction blocks of the object-specific transaction blockchain are verified as admissible on the basis of their respective validation program code, and
wherein a transaction verified as admissible on the basis of its validation program code at the time of reading from the object data memory of the object which automatically triggers the measure being undertaken on the object, wherein the measure relates to a change in ownership of the object.