US 12,137,084 B2
Zero trust management for data collection devices
Christopher J. Vollmar, Mississauga (CA); Adriana Pellegrini Furnielis, Valinhos (BR); Sarvesh S. Patel, Pune (IN); Frank N. Lee, Sunset Hills, MO (US); Abhishek Jain, Baraut (IN); Joseph W. Dain, Tucson, AZ (US); and Daniel De Souza Casali, Elmhurst, NY (US)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/061,506.
Prior Publication US 2024/0187391 A1, Jun. 6, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 63/062 (2013.01) [H04L 9/0819 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for management of data collection devices comprising:
creating a cluster of data collection devices and a distributed meta-key manager for the cluster;
providing an authentication key for each data collection device to access the distributed meta-key manager;
collecting and storing data by one or more of the data collection devices;
periodically perform a quorum check for each data collection device of the cluster;
updating an operational mode of each data collection device based on the quorum check; and
based on successful verification of the stored data and the operational mode of the data collection device, offloading the stored data from a data collection device.