Sony, the Japanese Tech giant applied for two new patents with the United States Patent and Trademark office. The documents reveal that the company has two new hardware approaches for hosting and maintaining blockchains.
The titles of the patents are “Electronic Node and Strategy for Maintaining a Distributed Ledger” and “Device and System.” We studied the abstracts and the patents and found that the company is working on devices and system which would be used to maintaining the blockchain. We also would like to mention.We know that crypto adoption is getting
The program mentioned in the first patent “Electronic Node and Strategy for Maintaining a Distributed Ledger” includes two elements: A hardware node and a method for keeping up the blockchain (which is supposedly “mining.“) Indeed, in one manifestation of this proposed innovation, the nodes could operate a network that is similar to that of bitcoin’s, which is an open-access network with a token.
In the next program, “Device and System,” Sony gets in on the security risks in a community that just has a small number of nodes. Because “the variety of devices accessing and contributing to the distributed ledger may be small, for example safety problems happen,” Sony suggests boosting that number through creation of virtual nodes. For e.g. There will be 10 virtual nodes for a single device, so for 100 devices there’ll be 1000 virtual nodes.
This isn’t to mention that Sony is starting its own cryptocurrency. But here, it appears that Sony is leaving the door open to the possibility by establishing the promise that its proposed invention could serve that goal.
This is the first time that the company has made attempts to work on the blockchain technology. Going through a report by CoinDesk, we found that the company was looking into blockchain technology for DRM protection in the past, because it thought that the current solutions for DRM protection are unreliable.
In the end, the submissions appear less focused on the sort of distributed ledger and more on the hardware and operational methods themselves. Sony indicates that the networks could be public or private, and could rely on Sony’s own applications or”distributed database technology such as Hadoop,” as one of the filings nations.
