Telecom Giant AT&T Interested In A Blockchain-Based Social Media ‘Mapping’ System

The American telecom giant AT&T is in today’s digital currency news – in fact the section related to blockchain – for its recent interest in a project that would build a social media history “map” based on blockchain.

As the telecom giant announced in its published application by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the patent application is seeking a patent for a blockchain-based social media history “map” and a system that may include a transaction history controller to store subscribers’ data which may be used for various purposes.

In a way, this system could let users purportedly track “micro-culture transactions” such as trends at a particular time or place, or behaviour of their trends. As the patent document reads:

“The social media history map platforms described herein may take advantage of the immutable and permanent nature of blockchain records to store, and provide access to, data representing online transactions that occur on multiple social media applications.”

According to the filing, content creators would keep the ownership of their data on the “mapping” platform:

“However, instead of passing ownership of blocks or data between users, a social media account owner maintains primary ownership of his or her online transaction data. What passes from the social media account owner to other users of the social media history map service, such as followers of the social media account owner, is a notion of elevated visibility rights.”

This is just one more patent application in the series that were submitted by companies such as Xerox, American Express, IBM and others – and a new milestone for AT&T overlooking its expansion in the field of blockchain.