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Blockchain implemented data migration audit trail

US11449478B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 8, 2020
Grant dateSep 20, 2022
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Expiry dateOct 8, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L9/50
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Computer-implemented methods, systems and computer program products leveraging blockchain networks to securely store a tamper-proof ledger comprising an audit trail describing the completion or missed data migration tasks, based on a timeline of an end-to-end data migration task schedule. Each of the event logs and alerts from the data migration source, data migration target, and/or migration tools, including network device logs, operating system logs, user-access logs, alerts, migration tool output etc. associated with the end-to-end migration tasks is made a part of the audit trail and stored to the ledger of the blockchain. All event logs, alert or other digital assets recorded to blocks of the blockchain can be timestamped, hashed and distributed across all nodes of the blockchain network and verified as valid by each of the peer nodes. As blocks updating the audit trail are added to the blockchain, the entries cannot be modified or tampered with.

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