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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Konstantinos Christidis, Durham, NC (US);

Anna D. Derbakova, Durham, NC (US);

Nitin Gaur, Austin, TX (US);

Praveen Jayachandran, Bangalore, IN;

Srinivasan Muralidharan, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); G06Q 20/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/383 (2013.01); G06Q 20/065 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3678 (2013.01); H04L 9/3236 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/00 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

The creation of a private sub-blockchain from a main blockchain is disclosed including receiving a request including a trust requirement and an agility requirement, receiving monitoring data from at least one of a plurality of validator nodes of the main blockchain, the monitoring data generated by monitoring the execution of transactions and the exchange of consensus messages by one or more of the plurality of validator nodes, determining a minimum number of validator nodes required to meet the trust requirement, identifying a subset of the plurality of validator nodes of the main blockchain that meets the agility requirement based on the received monitoring data, the subset containing at least the determined minimum number of validator nodes required to meet the trust requirement, and creating a private sub-blockchain of the main blockchain, the private sub-blockchain including the identified subset of the plurality of validator nodes of the main blockchain.


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