A patent for creating and storing information on a blockchain?

[adhitthana]

The patent describes a method for creating and storing a digital ID on a blockchain and providing the owner of the ID a way to grant permissioned access to historical data from a point in time.

Are other projects doing similar things?
What are the implications for these other projects if this patent is established?

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20161115/pdf/43cx5wsd6dx6fj.pdf

[rigel]

https://www.nem.io/ApostilleWhitePaper.pdf

Previous works are generally not affected by patents

[iamnotback]

https://www.nem.io/ApostilleWhitePaper.pdf

Previous works are generally not affected by patents

Patents are invalid if there was published prior art.

The patent describes a method for creating and storing a digital ID on a blockchain and providing the owner of the ID a way to grant permissioned access to historical data from a point in time.

Are other projects doing similar things?

I am confident we will find ample projects which have been working on that sort of feature and have been open source.

Open source is going to make patenting pretty much impractical.

[ArticMine]

The patent describes a method for creating and storing a digital ID on a blockchain and providing the owner of the ID a way to grant permissioned access to historical data from a point in time.

Are other projects doing similar things?
What are the implications for these other projects if this patent is established?

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20161115/pdf/43cx5wsd6dx6fj.pdf

This sounds a lot like the view key in Monero / Cryptonote. It is a provisional application likely in the United States so a prior art declaration has not been made. Does anyone have the actual application number, and where this patent was applied for?