US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 2 for "Smart contract deployment for DCF trust services billing" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,321, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart contract deployment for DCF trust services billing" was invented by Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.) and Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One method includes obtaining a snapshot of a data confidence fabric billing manifest, broadcasting the snapshot to one or more nodes of the data confidence fabric, deploying, at the nodes, billing logic included in the data confidence fabric billing manifest, and executing the billing logic to obtain information concerning a trust service provided regarding data associated with ...