Adobe Inc.
FACILITATING ANALYTIC SERVICES FOR PROVENANCE OF DIGITAL DOCUMENTS

Abstract:

Embodiments provide traceability of edits to a document, i.e., a verifiable and immutable provenance chain for the document. In particular, embodiments facilitate providing analytics services for a distributed ledger. In implementation, a unique identifier associated with a digital document can be received from a remote computing device. Based on the received unique identifier, it is determined that the distributed ledger includes a first transaction corresponding to a first transitioned state of the digital document and a second transaction corresponding to a second transitioned state of the digital document. Each transaction includes the unique identifier, a first fingerprint of the digital document generated at a first time of a transitioned state, and a second fingerprint of the digital document generated at a second time of a previously transitioned state. Thereafter, a provenance chain of the digital document including the first transaction followed by the second transaction is determined based on a determination that the second fingerprint of the second transaction corresponds to the first fingerprint of the first transaction.