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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Harm Cronie, Echallens, CH;
Julian Nolan, Pully, CH;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G09C 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); G09C 1/00 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 2209/30 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01); H04L 2209/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device for maintaining a distributed ledger, which is maintained by multiple electronic nodes, wherein the distributed ledger includes multiple blocks which are associated at least with one of the previously recorded blocks and wherein a block can be added to the distributed ledger based on a mining process, has circuitry configured to perform a mining process of a block to be added to the distributed ledger, wherein the mining process by at least a part of the multiple electronic nodes includes compressing data of the block to be added to the distributed ledger.