US 11,700,263 B2
Method for validating ownership of a resource within a network, coordinating agent and validation agent
Haya Shulman, Darmstadt (DE); Michael Waidner, Darmstadt (DE); and Markus Brandt, Darmstadt (DE)
Assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/599,218.
Claims priority of application No. 18200254 (EP), filed on Oct. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0296109 A1, Sep. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 16/245 (2019.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/104 (2013.01) [G06F 16/245 (2019.01); H04L 47/82 (2013.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.05); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method to validate ownership of a resource within a network, comprising:
selecting a group of at least two validation agents such that network routes between each validation agent of the group of at least two validation agents and entities each entity of a group of one or more entities associated to the resource do not intersect;
transmitting a property of the resource to be validated and an address indicator for the resource from a coordinating agent to the group of at least two validation agents;
querying the property of the resource from each entity of the group of one or more entities using the group of at least two validation agents to determine queried properties; and
evaluating the queried properties to validate ownership of the resource.