Telia Assigned Patent

Telia Company AB, Solna, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (11,048,686) developed by Rapanen, Joni, Vantaa, Finland, Sarajisto, Tomi, and Keisala, Ilkka, Helsinki, Finland, for “method and a node for storage of data in a network.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The embodiments herein relate to a network node and a method performed in the network node of an operator, for storage of data in a blockchain database in a network that is based on a Service Function Chaining (SFC) architecture, the method comprising: receiving data packets from an IoT device, performing, by a service function in the network node, at least deep packet inspection, DPI, on the received data packets for identifying sensor data of the received data packets, retrieving, from the operator’s system, network data associated with the sensor data, retrieving, from a third party system, external data associated with the sensor data, combining the identified sensor data, the network data and the external data to form a combined data, and storing the combined data in the blockchain database.”

The patent application was filed on December 21, 2018 (Appl. No.16/228,956).