Patent covers the lifecycle of a site title that’s linked to a blockchain tackle.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace has granted patent quantity 12,003,615 to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Lifecycle administration of area title blockchain addresses.”
The patent (pdf) describes a means of connecting domains, akin to instance.com, to a blockchain pockets tackle.
As soon as an individual associates a site title with a pockets tackle, customers can ship cryptocurrency and different objects to that person utilizing their area title, slightly than a difficult-to-remember pockets tackle.
The patent contains all the lifecycle of such an affiliation, together with establishing an affiliation between the area and blockchain tackle, in addition to deleting, updating, transferring, and renewing that affiliation.
The overarching concept is just not new. Ethereum Identify Service has labored with choose high stage domains since 2018, and opened to all domain names in 2021. Nevertheless, the Verisign patent covers a broad vary of actions associated to the lifecycle of a site title, slightly than simply manually connecting and disconnecting a site to a blockchain tackle.
Verisign filed for the patent in Could 2021, and it was granted right this moment.
The corporate has several other patents associated to blockchain expertise.
