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Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;

Inventor:

Fan Zhou, Hangzhou, CN;

Assignee:

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06Q 40/08 (2012.01); G06Q 20/08 (2012.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/08 (2013.01); G06Q 20/085 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3678 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a mutual aid network. One of the methods includes maintaining a particular blockchain specifically for handling requests for aid from a group of members; receiving transaction data encoding user responses to queries from the blockchain network for requesting the user responses regarding a particular request for aid; executing the smart contract using the particular blockchain to process the transaction data; in response to response results indicating that sufficient user responses have been received from the members of the subset of the group, and that a sufficient percentage of the subset of the group have agreed to the particular request for aid, computing an amount of contribution due to each member of the group; and instructing a gateway to trigger the amount of contribution to originate from each member of the group.


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