Mutable Digital Asset Storage Units for Decentralised Peer-to-Peer Verification

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Published April 7th, 2026

Detected April 7th, 2026

Summary

The USPTO granted Patent US12598058B2 to British Telecommunications Public Limited Company covering methods for managing mutable digital asset storage units in a decentralised peer-to-peer storage network using cryptographic verification. The patent includes 19 claims relating to selection criteria rules, cryptographic processing functions, and version management of storage units across peer computing systems.

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The USPTO issued Patent US12598058B2 for a method of managing storage units representing digital assets in a decentralised peer-to-peer network. The invention involves selecting storage units on peer computing systems using encoded selection criteria rules and performing cryptographic processing functions that take inputs related to current and selected storage unit versions to generate verification results stored in new versions.

The patent grants British Telecommunications exclusive rights to this peer-to-peer storage verification technology in the US for approximately 20 years from the 2023 filing date. Competitors developing similar decentralised storage systems with cryptographic verification may need to seek licensing or risk infringement claims. The granted patent could influence product development strategies for entities operating in decentralised storage, blockchain, or distributed ledger technology spaces.

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Mutable digital asset storage units for verifying other storage units in a decentralised peer-to-peer storage network

Grant US12598058B2 Kind: B2 Apr 07, 2026

Assignee

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Inventors

Catherine White, Jonathan Roscoe, Robert Hercock

Abstract

A method of managing storage units representing digital assets in a decentralised repository arranged in a peer-to-peer network comprising a plurality of peer computing systems, comprising steps of: selecting at least one storage unit hosted on a first peer computing system, where the selecting is carried out using selection criteria rules encoded in software; performing a cryptographic processing function taking as inputs information related to a current version of a first storage unit and information related to the selected at least one storage unit to generate a result as an output of the cryptographic processing function, where the first storage unit is hosted on a second peer computing system; and storing the result into a new version of the first storage unit.