SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RIGHTS CONTROL OF NETWORK-CONNECTED OR IOT DEVICES USING INFORMATION STORED IN A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER

摘要

Systems and methods for access rights control of network-connected devices using information from a distributed ledger are disclosed in one embodiment, an access controller device containing an access control manager application for causing the processor to perform: receiving a request for access to a resource from a network- connected device that includes a device identifier of the network-connected device and resource identifier, retrieving at least two pieces of information about the network- connected device from a distributed ledger, where the pieces of information about the network-connected device are each cryptographically signed by a different entity other than the network-connected device, and the information is not unique to a single instance of the network-connected device and is common to other network-connected devices of the same device model, and granting access in the access control manager based on at least the at least two pieces of information retrieved from the distributed ledger.